Google Tells Us that PageRank is for Entertainment Purposes Only

Google Tells Us that PageRank is for Entertainment Purposes Only:

You can read the ensuing debate on the validity of this statement, but I'll tell you here what I think is going on.

If you remember back about a month ago when MSN released their new search engine in Beta mode. They boasted their new indexed pages numbered just below Google's 4 billion. What Google did not let out until a couple days before the release of MSN Beta Search, and frankly too late for MSN to do anything about it, was that they had been indexing like crazy and now Google's home page reports over 8 billion web pages indexed!

Google has been very strategic about its every move when they caught wiff of MSN's new Search Engine they planned to build right into Windows explorer, a move which would give Google a hit to the kneecaps. Google also challened MSN by issuing email services that gave nearly unlimited storage space of 1GB. Both Yahoo and MSN were forced to step up their efforts and up their free webmail's storage space, a move that MSN finally got around to only days ago for my account.