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by meatbag 6030 days ago
"...the ranking makes sense." PR and rank are often correlated, but PR is not a good predictor of actual rank.

"How in the world Altavista has a PR of 9 is a mystery though." A large volume of natural links is probably the explanation here. altavista.com probably ended up in some trusted repository as well, which may render it relatively immune to "penalties" or other dampening factors.