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Re:Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of ... by baddox on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:58PM (#20934270)
> It's diminished to the point where Google is afraid of losing it's previously dominant signal for good.

Is Google afraid of losing that signal? I don't have any data to back this up, but my guess is that Google's reliance on PageRank is greatly diminished now, and they probably use search result click-through rate and website engagement data (from Google Analytics and ads) as the primary signals for website relevance and quality.

Re:Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of ... by ma2rten on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:14PM (#20934883)
PageRank is not an important signal anymore, but Google still uses links in other ways.

https://moz.com/blog/2019-study-on-link-ranking