it’s a pagerank post! jeremy zawodny declares that pagerank is dead, which has tangentially related to some of the things i was rambling on about earlier in the week:

“With all the recent discussion of Google removing (or not removing) blogs from their index, people have been barking up the wrong tree. Google doesn’t have to remove them. The simply need to identify them in a reliable way. Then they can be penalized (given a lower PageRank). And, believe it or not, that’s not terribly difficult to do if you have a good web map and a few blogs to use as starting points.

It has already happened.”

interesting that they seem to be favoring the “mass penalization” route, instead of the “differential display” option.