I'm not sure if this has been discussed before -- I searched and couldn't find anything -- and, if not, I'm not sure if it's this forum or the toolbar forum to which I should address this. In any case, I'm wondering whether Google might be using information gathered through the toolbar to establish pagerank. After all, what better way to measure a site's significance than the number of times people visit it? There have been many discussions of Alexa here and, as near as I can gather, the only real complaint people have is the limited information on which its rankings are based. The Google toolbar, on the other hand, seems to much more popular and, thus, the information collected would probably provide an excellent indication of which pages rank higher. Moreover, it would also help to account for the phenomenon of rated but uncrawled pages.
Anyone have any thoughts on this or another thread they can point me to?
