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What is PageRank?

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<span style='font-family:tahoma'>PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. but, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.</span>

(ref. link: http://www.google.com/technology/)

So there you have it -- to put this into perspective though, a 3/10 is not a good PageRank... it is infact, poor.

Some of the net's more popular sites have the following:
http://www.google.com -- 10/10
http://slashdot.org -- 9/10
http://www.msn.com -- 9/10
http://www.cnn.com -- 8/10
http://www.ebay.com -- 8/10
http://www.amazon.com -- 10/10
.....
http://wham.canoe.ca -- 7/10 :)
(psssst... www.ign.com has a 7/10 too.. muwahahaha)

Any more questions?

- Quass out.