Hi again,
well I never gave much credibility to the link part of the algo for the simple matter that I knew what has happened. … would happen.
It was stupid of whoever thought that part of the algo up: to not have considered the rediculous race that would result .. MHO.
I don’t think the idea was completely dumb. But do think they put way too much relevance to it. I think a better way would have been to assign a certain “max level” you could reach in regards to the incoming links and then whatever group of sites that all are equal in content + all other aspects including them having reached the “max level” of incoming links … should then be rotated in regards to who gets top page ranking as many sites do with their link pages to decide who gets near the top of the page.