Another way to look at this is a blow to openness and a concentration of Google's power. The PageRank scores still exist, but they now will be known only by (so

Another way to look at this is a blow to openness and a concentration of Google's power. The PageRank scores still exist, but they now will be known only by (some? all?) Google employees. Therefore, the data is no longer open and power is now more concentrated: Those who know someone at Google can find out their page rank score; the 99.999...% of the rest of the world cannot.