Mathias wrote: "One of the most important factors in the PageRank formula is freshness. If I copy a page from the source web site which is already in the google index, I have a certain chance to get ahead of if - for some time. After a while, the ratio of age will balance and other factors (the global pagerank of a site, and it's update frequency) will catch up."
Comparison of PhatNav's Rembrandt page with our edit history reveals they used a dump from between 19 Jun 2003 and 14 Sep 2003.
The Wikipedia article has been edited 30 times since then.
Erik Zachte
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