Toolbar change

Can it only be me?

[Brian]

Two days ago my Google toolbar was reconfigured, integrating the search box into my browser (so there is no drop-down when the bar is turned on) and OMITTING the pagerank meter. Now I'm assuming Google has done this to me (and I can think of good arguments for scrapping Google's measure of the importance of sites), but I haven't seen anyone else mention this phenomenon. Is this the end of life as we know it, or what?

[thunderpaste]

Select "options" under the Google emblem in the toolbar. You can change the drop-down settings, buttons, etc...

[Brian]

Thunder: Thanks, but actually, I know that part. What I am saying is: I believe my toolbar has been externally reconfigured to eliminate the visible evidence of pagerank. I think it happened when they asked me if I wanted to join Google Compute (and I said no thanks). Methinks I may be a beta of things to come.

[thunderpaste]

Have you tried uninstalling the toolbar and then re-install? Make sure you select "advanced features" because PR is an advanced feature.

[Brian]

Thunder: Thanks again, but I just discovered a toolbar forum, on which somebody else is saying the same as me. He got the same advice as you're giving, and it didn't work. I think Google may be thinking the unthinkable: of letting pagerank sink into the background. After all, apart from its marketing value (which as a near monopoly Google no longer needs), what does it do but encourage an unhealthy level of engineering by nerds like ourselves and provoke lawsuits? I wouldn't be at all surprised if you wake up soon and find your little green line has gone... forever (sob).

[Helpmebe1]

hmmm..intersting..would it be gone or just no longer viewable by us?