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Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation by amelius on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:46PM (#20480846)
> This presumably manipulates PageRank

Is PageRank still used by Google?

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Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation by kevlened on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:00PM (#20483390)
This was on a post a few days ago [0]:

> Ex-Google-Search engineer here

> The comments here that PageRank is Google's secret sauce also aren't really true - Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442044

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Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation by mgaw on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:12PM (#20481091)
Yes, according to https://mobile.twitter.com/methode/status/910435076613328896

(@methode works for Google)

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