wheel - 3:32 pm on May 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

I blush to admit that I still use PR - but as a telltale. If a site has pr0, I don't spend a lot of time on it. If it has a pr4+, I'll check the backlinks. In this case the pr simply tells me if the site has something in the way of backlinks. If the backlinks are garbage, I move on. If the backlinks giving the site good PR are all solid, I'll look into the site. And I always look for relevance.

In short, I don't dispute that pr is a poor measure. But it is a good measure of the amount of backlinks a site has. And if it has a lot of quality backlinks, then it's well integrated into the fabric of the web, and a place I want to get a link from.

I'm also not certain that text link companies are dead if toolbar pr is withdrawn. People still want links don't they?