sit2510 - 8:00 am on Jun 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

I always welcome the presence of that little green bar because it makes my work and life easier. People will always need to have some kinds of tool or benchmarks to rate the things. Today it happens to be that green bar which is widely accepted and popular.

There is always room to look at the bigger pictures. If that green bar were to vanish today, what do you think people will use as the benchmark to rate the site or links in the next 6 months? Nothing? or Would it be Traffic Ranks of Alexa, Webranks of Yahoo or GateRanks of MSN (if it were to exist) or something else? People will always need to find some ways. If it were to be the Webranks of Yahoo, then we will hear some noise again very similar to this one that Yahoo should take away their Webranks. After Yahoo takes away their Webrank, then another cycle begins.

As long as "link popularity" is the fundamental concepts of today SEO, there is no way to end this cycle and there is no way you can stop people from creating, producing, or refering some other tools as a benchmark - Not even Google abolision of PR toolbar.