In order to gain further insight into the relative importance of the various PageRanks, the DLL obtained PageRank data for the Home Pages of prominent organizations in three other information-intensive sectors: information technology (broadly defined), media (broadly defined) and governance, i.e., government and policy/politics.

A. Information Technology Sector

The PageRanks for vendors of computer hardware, software, networks, and Internet standards organizations are shown in Table A (below):

• The DLL found three organizations -- Apple, Google, and the W3C -- that received Google's highest PageRank = 10
  
  
• The other IT powerhouses -- IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Sun, HP, Oracle, and Yahoo -- received PageRank = 9
  
  
• A number of very successful IT firms received PageRanks = 7 and 8

Table A. Information Technology Sector
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B. Media

The PageRanks for the Home Pages of print, broadcast, cable, and internet media are found in Table B (below):

• The DLL only found one organization in this group -- The the New York Times -- that received the highest PageRank = 10
  
  
• The Washington Post received PageRank = 9
  ... All other newspapers (except the Times) received PageRank = 7 or 8
  
  
• NPR and the BBC were the only broadcast media that received PageRank = 9
  ... All other broadcast media received PageRank = 8
  
  
• CNN was the only cable operation that received PageRank = 9
  ... All other cable operations received PageRank = 7 or 8
  

Table B. Media
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C. Governance -- Government and Policy/Politics

The PageRanks for the Home Pages of the governance organizations are shown in Table C (below):

• Only two organizations -- the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation received the highest PageRank = 10
  
  
• The House (9) and Senate (9) outranked the Supreme Court (8) and the White House (7).
  
  
• DARPA (9) -- a component of the Department of Defense -- outranked the DoD itself (7).
  
  
• Only four policy/politics groups -- the NAACP, MoveOn.org, Electronic Frontier, and the NEA -- received PageRank = 8
  ... All others received 6 or 7.
  

Table C. Governance -- Government and Policy/Politics
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