Google Pagerank as ultimate karma component?

[NeverHome]

I was thinking this morning that a great way for the "system" to guage the value of submitted articles would be for the script to grab the pagerank of the target page and factor that in to the equation. I'm sure you can grab the pagerank somehow using the google API.

[savant]

not i don't think theres an api for that

people sniff the url and get the page rank.
or something like that