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Well to be fair PageRank was specifically designed to prevent people from doing that. Ranking algorithms before that (like the one I'm currently using) simply looked at backlinks, making it very easy to boost your capsule by writing a page chock-full of links pointing to it.
Wait, was it? I was under the impression that PageRank had no defense at all against link farming since it derives the weighting/eigenvalues for *every* page by the contribution of others in the previous iteration. Discriminating against inflated contributions came later I think, and isn't published by them anywhere.