Popups hurt PR and/or ranking?

Revisited

[Seattle_SEM]

Hey all,
I found this discussion [webmasterworld.com], but it's like a year old.

Does anyone know if pop-ups/unders hurt rankings at all?
I know AdWords doesn't allow them, but am more concerned with "natural" rankings.

Thanks!

[jbinbpt]

IMO Google went to great lengths to build a great popup blocker into the new toolbar. Why would they do that? I have no problem with them collecting that information. Do they or will they consider using it? I hope that it makes designers think before popping.

[Perplexed]

jbinbpt - It hadn't occurred to me that Google would be collecting the details of the pop ups it stopped ( I am nieve like that ) It raises some interesting possibilities doesn't it. I wonder if it is retaining the information on useful popups in the same catagory or seperating them off.

[yonnermark]

when you HAVE to provide big, high quality images, popups are the only option. My main page is about 750px wide including navbar so I certainly can't load my 900px wide photos within the site structure. I have to make them popup.... don't I?

Mark

[jbinbpt]

There is an interesting thread on Page Quality [webmasterworld.com].
Google reputation is it's data and how it feeds it back to us. Google collects and rewards based on the algo. Who knows.
I really have no problem with them collecting any info on what I do.

I thing the idea of a useful popup would be an interesting discussion here