Again this is completely wrong. Where you rank in the SERPs is a direct result of your APR. No matter what the search term, the engine ranks each page (hence the term page rank) on various criteria only one of which is links. If your page achieves the highest ranking for the search term from all of the other pages the index knows about that also include that search term then your will get 1st place in the SERPs.
Sorry my friend but you are confusing people with your logic. Here is the definition from wikepedia.. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page,[1] used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. So Basically manny07 was correct in his definition
Not really. It depends on how you choose to interpret that description. Every document on the web is a hyperlinked document. The url is the hyperlink and so the inbound links are only one subset of the overall algorithm. Since each page on the web, good or bad, is hyperlinked in some way, be that from the DNS registry or any other source, then it matters not how many links you have coming in when looking at this description. More to the point the description also states 'assigns a numerical weight to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents". This doesn't say that only links are part of the PR algorithm, it clearly states that each element is weighted. Only one of those elements is inbound links. Other elements include body content and context, special markup such as heading tags, as well as other elements such as the meta data. So manny07 is still not correct in his definition and this wikipedia description of page rank clearly show that. Added to this that manny07 has a confused idea that SERPs are not relative to algorithm page rank when in fact SERPs are the direct result of the assignment of a numerical weight all of the elements of a hyperlinked set of documents, with the purpose of measuring the relative importance of each document within the set of all documents for which a particular search term or phrase is used to query the index. I hope this clarifies what that description/definition of page rank actually means/says.
The whole point is that Page Rank is seperate data that includes page rank as one of the 200 factors. What you are doing is confusing people with your definition of a Google algo which is not page rank. I understand what you are getting at however what you are describing is not pagerank it is an algorythm. For example Caffeine is an infastructure change that also includes and algorythm change as many can see. It however has nothing to do with pagerank. Google adjust ist's algorythm an average of 200 times per year constantly tweaking. This is not pagerank.. You are confusing people..
Well we are going to have to agree to disagree then because by your own commentary you are yourself confused. Pagerank is not separate data - is the resultant data set. Pagerank as described by the Patent and the wikipedia definition is the resultant numerical value given to a page after the algorithm (a mathematical process) has evaluated and calculated all of the 200+ elements that determine the final value for the page rank. If you think that this is incorrect you are entitled to that opinion though I would suggest that you read some of the work from highly recognised experts in this field and see what they have to say about it. You are also misguided on your view of Caffeine. Caffeine is, as described by Google representatives including Matt Cutts, a major change to the way the algorithm processes those 200+ factors to determine the final page rank for any given page which in turn determines where a page lands on a SERP for a given search term. If people are confused it's because there is far to much misinformation such as "Google adjust ist's algorythm an average of 200 times per year ". Were does this number come from? Is it posted on an official Google website somewhere? Your own description from wikipedia shows that your assumptions about pagerank are completely misguided and that your perception that the mathematical process and equations (the algorithm) of determining pagerank is somehow different to pagerank itself, is a clear indication that your not even sure about what you are saying. Not even knowing how to spell algorithm is probably another clear indicator that you don't really know what you're talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm So one must then ask "if an algorithm is a method for solving problems, and that it calculates a finite sequence of instructions with the intent of terminating in a final ending state, and Google uses an algorithm, what is the problem they are trying to solve, and what is the final ending state that they seek to determine?" The answer quickly becomes apparent that they are attempting to solve the problem of which page to rank in each position of the SERP. Is it getting clearer yet or are you still confused?
High quality backlinks or quantity backlinks could get you high pr,and i think though google has removed pr from the webmastertool,but it is also important for arithmetic.