gopi - 8:50 pm on May 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

It has no real benefits to the average user ...some here may argue the user will use it for checking the quality of a site ... but an average surfer dont care what is a site's PR ( its even a question wheather he knows what a PR in the first place!)

The only benefit (if any) google got by it is that it helped to spread the PR buzz in the media . Whenever a article is written about google they dont fail to put a line or two about PageRank Technology

IMHO , the toolbar PR display created more problems than any benefits for Google or its users or the web as a whole