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In one of his many video's Matt Cutts can now announced that the PageRank still has relevance in the assessment of the search engine rankings on Google.
It has betrayed the Google employee in connection with a question about the ranking of videos in the index. He said that Google still pay attention to valid links and the PageRank.

"What are the factors a video in the Universal affect results in Google? I have the same video, one on Youtube with many views, comments and ratings, but the other is with a few views and no comments the one that climbs, how come? "

So, my first guess, without knowing details, is that this video may get links from a very reputable site, and therefore has more PageRank.
We still look to links, and we still look at PageRank, when we have grown more things. If this video is mentioned on a very reputable site, then it could be that it has more PageRank, and therefore better climbs. [...]"

Translation by Claudia, Search Quality
Monday 23 November 2009 at 15:40
Source: http://googlewebmastercentral-de.blogspot.com

How much truth there really turn is, can be checked, of course not - it is assumed that Matt Cutts wants us to say that the PageRank of a kind of visible intermediate in the Calculate the SERPs (search engine result pages) and thus indirectly an indicator for the "value" of a site is.