Page rank and its affect on engine rank

Chicken and the egg question

[Essex_boy]

So after reading about how a page's rank in the search engines could be affected by its PR level I need this question answered.

I seem to think that ranking in google comes first then comes the page rank, on the next update does Google then take notice of the rank and upgrade/downgrade the page?

I know thats way way to simple in reality but assume its just a matter of page rank affecting pages.

If tis isnt so whats the point of page rank?

[Stefan]

If pages have the right content, they can easily have better serps than other pages with higher Page Rank that are aiming at the same kw's. Remember too, that the PR that shows in the toolbar always lags the already factored in, current, unshown PR, that is affecting the current serps.

That being said, the PR of a page is usually cheek and jowl with the serps, because they're part and parcel, neither chicken nor egg, (more like parthenogenesis), and this will usually result in a higher PR page outranking a similar page that has similar on-page/title kw ambitions, if the content is equal. The backlinks will swing it.

In anticipation of reaction from some here who proclaim to have PR7's, but were disappeared in Florida, I should add that your PR7, courtesy of suspect recip-linking schemes, might eventually turn into a solid white bar to accurately reflect the status of your vanished pages.