This made me laugh:
Not that I actually have an opinion on how to best rank webpages. To settle the debate, we’d have to see the actual algorithm that Google uses as well as gauge the ratio of legitimate links to pages (i.e. not from spam/link farms).
Not we’ll get to see the Google algorithm. The best idea is to come up with a comprehensive list of factors that influence a page’s popularity and usefulness that most people can reasonably agree on and write an open source version of the algorithm. As far as legitimate links are concerned, I haven’t the faintest.
What do you think?
Random Musings 