What is PageRank?

abbrev pr = Page Rank

[Cricket]

Hi,

Ultra daft question but whats PR?

Cricket.

[agerhart]

PR is Page Rank. Google's score of a webpage.

[Cricket]

Not actual position in the SERP?
Is this a published scoring mechanism which I can use at Google or another site?

I remember in the good old days when AV Belgium had a score shown against the sites in the search results.

The reason I am confused is the reply above which says that a site with a PR of 4 can move ahead of one with 5 or 6, this implies ??
Soz for the denseness - it's been a long day.
Great forum BTW.

Cricket.

[Brett_Tabke]

Much has changed since then:
[www-db.stanford.edu...]

[Mike_Mackin]

Welcome Cricket

AND [google.com]

[ebgreen]

I am a little confused about page rank. To me it seems like "You have to have credit to get credit" type of thing. I understand that you want to link to other sites that have a high page rank, but how does this start? What I mean is that you can't start with a page rank of 10, so how is it determined who starts with what rank?