Dear Google: Either Drop PageRank, or Give It More....Granularity

I'm a seven, I think. Danny was too, but now, for some reason, he's a six. Mike's an eight. Google, natch, is a Ten (one of only two that Amit could find).

PageRank is the unofficial, and official, and semi-official, arbiter of value on the web.

And it's just deeply broken - not because there isn't data that informs all of our collective rank. But because we have no idea what that data… » Full Story on John Battelle's Searchblog