Comments on: Understanding PageRank

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:40:52 +0000

There’s been a lot of speculation about that. Some have even speculated that Google has stopped updating it altogether because of their crackdown (or at least purported crackdown) on link selling. Since links are priced largely based on PageRank, by not updating the Toolbar PR, they could be hoping to inflict even more damage on the process.

By: mlankton

mlankton — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:36:07 +0000

…and here we are in October with another late pagerank. Any ideas what the deal is?

By: Schools

Schools — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:31:57 +0000

I think page rank (at least the toolbar version) has to be on its way out. By revealing it, Google is enabling the link buying and trading that is undermining their algorythm. Why do they do it?

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:44:42 +0000

That’s a great point, gecko. If you’re sitting out there sad because yours didn’t change over the weekend, buck up. It looks like only within the last few hours has the update reached all datacenters, and the only one I’m not seeing it for now is toolbarqueries.google.com, which, I presume, is the main node. You should see your new value reflected in the toolbar soon.

By: gecko

gecko — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:37:41 +0000

When a PR update happens, it doesn�t happen all at once – Google has many �datacenters�, and your new PR will �percolate� between those datacentres over the next few days to a week.