Over 25 million pages have been indexed, and the goal is to gear up toward 100 million or more. Google also provides some ranking boosts on page characteristics. The appearance of terms in bold text, or in header text, or in a large font size is all taken into account. None of these are dominant factors, but they do figure into the overall equation. Yet interesting alternative sites, such as Werner's Unofficial Disney Park Links, also made it on the list.
Page has no opposition to it, but said there's no particular hurry.
And what they want is to find the right partners to let them focus on improving relevancy. If you pay a visit, don't be frightened by the interface. One thing Google needs is a good facelift. The value of links hasn't been lost on the major search engines, of course. Infoseek chairman Steve Kirsch recently said that link data was a core component of his service's new retrieval algorithm.