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by hedora 1508 days ago
The PageRank era ended almost immediately. Google has had a large editorial team for a long, long time (probably before they were profitable).

It turns out PageRank aways kind of sucked. However, it was competing with sites that did “pay for placement” for the first page or two, so it only had to be better than “maliciously bad”.