Lived through it. Microsoft had a 9. Anything list on the dmoz had a 4.
Page Rank doesn't work if the seeded values are all set to 0. If everyone started at 0 they pass on nothing. Google needed a way to seed. They assigned the highest value to themselves scaling down to other giants, universities, dmoz sites, etc.
Pagerank is a reputation calculator. You still need to define at least one cool person. Much better with thousands to varying degrees.
Page Rank doesn't work if the seeded values are all set to 0. If everyone started at 0 they pass on nothing. Google needed a way to seed. They assigned the highest value to themselves scaling down to other giants, universities, dmoz sites, etc.
Pagerank is a reputation calculator. You still need to define at least one cool person. Much better with thousands to varying degrees.