PageRank

PageRank is Google's way of measuring the popularity of pages from the number of links to them. Produces good search results, but is now a major target of spammers, who try to get links onto other pages in order to boost their page rank.

• PageRank is dead : http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html

• SeoContests

• Referer log spamming : http://www.komar.org/faq/scumbags/referrer-log-spamming/

• SpammingThoughtStorms

Chinese firewall designed to reduce it : (OnChina) http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/politicalrisk.html (OnChina)

See also :

• SearchEngines

• AnalyzingThoughtStorms