What would be worse? All pagerank 9 pages disappearing off the internet, or all page rank <=2 pages disappearing?
All Pagerank 9s gone would be BAD! We need high pr sites like them on the internet to maintain stability!
PR9 are so few that they are disposable, while <=PR2 are a huge % of the internet Actually all sites and subpages created this month are <=PR2
IMHO the greatest use of the internet is to research and exchange knowledge in less well known topics that might be of interest to only a few dozen folk worldwide. If the websites for these topics disappeared, the internet would be a worse place. If the PR9 sites disappeared, it would be inconvenient, but the information would still be available elsewhere.
Of course PR2.. Without them you no small quality sites. PR3 begins to get into bigger sites.. If Google is PR9 then we have a problem.. =] Maybe nyt.com too..
Seeing as there's just over 50 PR9 sites and millions of >PR2 sites, I think it would be worse if the >PR2 sites were to vanish. Alot of blogs and personal pages would disappear. I'd like to say that 90% of the internet is PR2 or less. If they were to disappear, the Internet would seem pretty empty.