For all of you link lovers and page rank junkies out there, this could be a particularly wonderful happening…

So it surprised us when Yahoo contacted us earlier this week to say that they are testing outside links from their home page. The goal, they say, is to make Yahoo.com as relevant as possible to their. By linking to outside websites, their hope is that the relevance (perceived or actual) of the Yahoo portal will increase.

Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page - TechCrunch