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Rank_1:1:6 Rank_1:1:5 Rank_1:1:4 Rank_1:1:4 Rank_1:1:5 Rank_1:1:6 Rank_1:1:5 Rank_1:1:0 Rank_1:1:1 Rank_1:1:5 Rank_1:1:2 Rank_1:1:3 Rank_1:1:0 Rank_1:1:0 Rank_1:1:3
These figures are for a site that has a current toolbar of PR4.
I searched the web for an explanation, but failed to get a good one.
Is there any idea as to what all these magical numbers mean?
Has anyone explained these tags yet:
- <HAS>
<L TAG="link:" />
<C SZ="9k" CID="SkCXAwDSf9QJ" TAG="cache:" ENC="" />
<RT TAG="related:" />
</HAS>
SZ seems to mean size. What about that "related-"issue? I noticed that quite recently the results of related:www.mydomain.com, which normally revealed basically my dmoz-neighbours, have completely changed.
I also noticed
<CRAWLDATE>16. Febr. 2006</CRAWLDATE>
is that a general info or does it have to do with the google-sitemaps framework?
So unless we assume specific filters concerning these groups-archives I'd say that it is sufficiently disproved this value would show future TBPR. Quite unlikely such old pages would get a new value assigned the next time.
My home page did not change but the tool showed a 2 level increase for it from 4 to 6
the checksum code is only tested in FF. Its the same code included in G's toolbar for FF and it's used to compute the ch parameter which is a checksum/hash of q parameter itself. Google uses the hash to make it more diffcult to programatically query the PageRank using scripts or so. It was cracked several times in the past and can hardly be considered a secret anymore considering that the source to the hash algo is publicly available in Google's toolbar for Firefox.
I also have to correct my above comment concerning TBPR. The RK-value shows the general PR of any of googles newsgroups, whereas any particular posting comprises a databasequery over the groups which is not indexed as an idempotent URL. So the value also seems to be fine in these entries.
The new PR matches by <RK> values as the <RK> values were a week or so ago - the <RK> values have moved on since then for me - so it does indicate to me that those <rk> values are pretty on the mark - although the export was a couple of weeks ago.
...so it does indicate to me that those <rk> values are pretty on the mark
Despite the contrary opinions, I am almost confident that <rk> values largely reflect current PR (or future TB PR).
For example, <RK> for a newly built site (1 mo old) was 4, and the update shows a PR4.
My blog page had a PR3, <RK> = 5, and now the update shows a PR5.
However, there is one thing weird: my homepage had a P4, <RK> shows 6, bud update shows PR5. But this might be another story, since it had a google directory PR5 while toolbar PR was 4.
It looks like the data for the newly displayed PR is a couple of weeks old though - so your homepage may already have moved on since then.
I dont know exactly what my <RK> values were at Jan 29th to Feb 4th - which appears to have been when the new toolbar PR is being displayed from.
This PR update is only on the non-BD dcs too - I would therefore assume that after BD roll out there may be another PR update.
is it really necessary to point out again that the directory-bar covers a scale from 1-7 instead of 1-10?
[edited by: Oliver_Henniges at 10:18 am (utc) on Feb. 19, 2006]
