Google was more cagey about Vince and brand power than they were about other updates. The popular theory was that there was some hand-picked set of "popular b

Google was more cagey about Vince and brand power than they were about other updates. The popular theory was that there was some hand-picked set of "popular brand urls" and that pagerank flowing from those had more weight (beyond the already heavy weight they would have because of their link graph).