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Yesterday in the newsgroup alt.internet.search-engines 'N-P-H' claimed that "the level 1 and 2 node web pages are more important than the level 3 and 4 nodes." I guessed that 'N-P-H' meant that the index page of a site is the most important one, and the pages linked from it are less important etc., and told 'N-P-H' that this is wrong. Today 'N-P-H' confirmed that I guessed right, but disagreed with my view because "since that is precisely how they (Google) compute page rank.". Well, it's not.

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