37Signals & 1 Signal of *questionable* quality

Search engines love their signals of quality, but how about 37 signals of selling pagerank.

“Plus, The Deck ads are not redirected and the average page rank of the eight Deck sites is 7.125 which can make a significant difference in an advertiser’s search rankings during and well after a campaign is complete”

so are they selling pagerank? if it quacks like a dog…

Three points of interest:
1. Toolbar pagerank down to the thousandths?? sure, it’s an average, but is that really necessary or meaningful? don’t answer…
2. Is that 7.125 a result of “the deck” TM or a result of only accepting advertisers to “the deck” TM that they have heard of and like?
3. who cares? TBPR is next to useless. I cut myself off over a year ago and really, life is better. Even white hats agree