Page Rank

Who should be 1st or 2nd?

[jaybee]

I don't usually question or even pay much attention to page ranks as far as Google goes, however out of curiosity sake, I just thought I'd look at the bar when I visited the IRS home page.

Strangely it's 9/10

Comparing this with Yahoo which is 10, I'm still amiss with the in and out links.

The way I figure it, the IRS,(perhaps?) could be of more importance than Yahoo.

So how comes Yahoo rates a 10 and the gov site is 9.

Maybe no-one want's to deal with taxes, or is it in the design?

'''(-:)
That's me screatching my head.

[lazerzubb]

IRS is for americans only, Yahoo is worldwide.
(p.s please take a look at the forum charter)

[yetanotheruser]

pr is only important so far.. there's gotta be some old style keyword/phrase algo stuff in google too.. IMHO pr is there to rank very similar results in order of importance and not as a be all and end all of ranking any site/query..

[JayC]

The way I figure it, the IRS,(perhaps?) could be of more importance than Yahoo.

PageRank is essentially the result of a mathematical formula. While Google refers to it as a measure of each site's "importance," they're using that term in a very specific way: a site is more important than another, in PageRank terms, if it has a "better" set of incoming links.

Using the "link" command at Google shows that www.irs.gov has 20,500 listed links while www.yahoo.com has 642,000. Yahoo is, therefore, more "important."

[lgn]

Perhaps the IRS links are more heavily weighted.
Besides, who really wants to get on the wrong side
of the IRS :)