Re:Ugh. This is so not true. (Score 1)

There's an awful lot of cross-domain 302's out there from very important authority sites. I believe that if Google did this, that they would see a huge upheaval in the pagerank distribution across the whole of their SERPs. For example, it is no secret at all how meaningful Yahoo Directory listings are to the *average* website in terms of getting ranked on their primary keywords. Every link in the Yahoo! Directory uses a 302 redirect. If google suddenly threw out those links from their PageRank accounting, they would probably shuffle up their index a great deal as a result. Right now they have results that make them a good deal of money and it would be ill-advised, from a shareholder's perspective to just fix this problem and see what happens. I've said all along that google knows about the problem but that there are larger issues preventing it's repair that it can't disclose.