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		notauser on May 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using your laptop to compute PageRank for millions... {Related} I wonder how search engines are using the 'nofollow' tag these days. I know it's supposed to mean that PR does not accrue to the destination but they would have to be mad to ignore such a huge source of data.

ddemchuk on May 27, 2010 [–]

just because the PR doesn't flow through the nofollow link does not mean that the SE's aren't following the links to see what's on the other side....

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