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est on Oct 26, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality h...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=...

Let me guess:

1. Google's Pagerank patent is about to expire, and they have to make something new?

2. New ranking algorithm adjustment to compete with Bing but failed?

And similar discussions on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9qro1/

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9s6p2/

robk on Oct 26, 2009 [–]

The pagerank patent isn't really relevant anymore as the search algorithm has so many more components and variants now. Pagerank as it is defined is a much smaller signal than people think.

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