I, for one, didn't think his argument was remotely misleading.
I did, however, think that bringing PageRank into the argument was ill advised and probably detrimental to his goal of advocacy through education. It just confused things, introduced another rabbit-hole concept.
If the author thought that mentioning PageRank would lend credibility to the 'link counting' / 'random link clicking bots' foregone conclusion he setup., he was right. It did. So link the text to a footnote referencing PageRank and stay on topic.
I did, however, think that bringing PageRank into the argument was ill advised and probably detrimental to his goal of advocacy through education. It just confused things, introduced another rabbit-hole concept.
If the author thought that mentioning PageRank would lend credibility to the 'link counting' / 'random link clicking bots' foregone conclusion he setup., he was right. It did. So link the text to a footnote referencing PageRank and stay on topic.