Pagerank queries - the <rk> parameter

What do such figures as Rank_1:1:6 Rank_1:1:5 mean?

[selomelo]

We already know that toolbar PR is in fact an historical figure. When you query google for current PR, you get some mysterious figures such as:

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?

[Dayo_UK]

BillyS

The summary again shows top ten pages which contain the query.

eg. if you are searching on your domain "www.domain.com" then the summary shows the snippets as they appear on the top 10 on a normal serp page - probably with your site in number 1 (& maybe 2) position followed by other sites that mention your domain.

So - the info you may be seeing is someone else who has listed your site with that information and this appears in the snippet when searching for your domain?

On a different issue - I was thinking of the term used for <rk> in the Google xml documentation as "a general rating of the relevance of the search result", search result clearly means the page returned for the <rk> value - the relevance word stumps me a bit - it clearly does not mean relevant towards the search term - so relevant to what exactly? The rest of the web? - eg Page Rank?

[ebound]

I checked my current pagerank page and found a Summary <S> Tag that looked like it was hand written. After searching futher I found that the summary listed by google for my website comes from DMOZ.

So I wanted to see if this was true with other sites. The same thing happens with WebmasterWorld.
[google.com...]

S=Brett Tabke hosts professional webmaster and search engine promotion discussions.

[search.dmoz.org...]

The differnce is that when I search my site in Google, it does not use the summary listed in my current pagerank query. It uses my meta desc. WebmasterWorld on the other hand does show the DMOZ desc in Google serps.

Not really sure of the significance of this. Maybe the description they are using for my site in the serps is going to change soon.

I guess the most significant discovery here is that I actually have a link from DMOZ. I gave up checking for my link to be approved over a year ago. So there is some good news that comes from this. :)

[Rose_1171]

[66.249.93.99...]

Whats that? How did you get there?
Regards,
Rosie

[iblaine]

This string is a strange result and much longer than it used to be. Is this long string now normal for all PR queries or is this an isolated event?

[BillyS]

So - the info you may be seeing is someone else who has listed your site with that information and this appears in the snippet when searching for your domain?

Dang, you're right.

[Lorel]

Also as this <rk> figure does not change based on the search term we are left with the definition of:-

>>Text (Integer in the range 0-10)

>>"Provides a general rating of the relevance of the search result"

Which as we know is not dependent on the search term - if it is not PR it is something very close to it.

Why can't this be a combination of your Rank in the SERPs and Page Rank. Google records visits to a page/site via it's toolbar. If a page/site is ranking well in the SERPS maybe this has something to do with those numbers and they affect one's PR also.

[FromRocky]

I think that <RK> indicates a popularity ranking of a search term. This ranking is also based on the same scale as the page rank (0-10). Search Popularity Ranking for "hotels" is 9 and "xkgff" will be 0.

[Oliver Henniges]

I understand your enthusiasm about all this, but has anyone welcomed protellix (msg24) yet?

Just one thing, because I haven't found it explicitly mentioned: You may put your suggestions on a broader emprirical basis by adding the get-variables 'start' and 'num' to your query. E.g.:

[66.249.93.99...]

[66.249.93.99...]

[Hollywood]

Keep in mind people the keyword term "biased"

If someone here posts something very accurate and true and visionary someone else may post that the first person (visionary guy) is wrong. Why?

Cause if someone gets it finally (Something new and huge) once someone somewhere may figure out this is huge and try to convince everyone that it is all hot air to confuse you into not believing it so they can dominate from the finding when everyone else is not taking it for the truth.

Hope that made sense.

My question is when using the pagerank guessing tool why are two of my sites showing current PR of 4 and a predicted PR of 6 when hardly any work has been done to it as of late?

And what is this --> <R N="4" L="2">

Hollyweird

[fischermx]

R = Result
N = Number (position)
And I think the L=2 stands for if it is complementary results. Or whatever you call at those results that have a wider left margin.