Same version different files

[Risingsunn]

I am damn sick and tired of the inaccurate PR rankings from the same site on different PCs. I have confirmed one thing though. That despite Google listing the same version of the toolbar, the Dlls that control them are actually different. I have one system that has a toolbar installed 6 months ago with the googletoolbar.dll file being 438,272 bytes in size. I have another system that I installed the toolbar on yesterday that the dll file is 458,752 bytes in size. The old toolbar shows gray PR for new sites where as the new toolbars NEVER show gray at all anymore! So a new site uploaded 5 minutes ago will get a PR of 0 instead of the old gray. This makes its now even harder to determine if the site has been spidered. I am not a programmer but I would seriously like to decompile the toolbar and see exactly how it gets its results. And perhaps use it to see if sites have been spidered or not. Maybe even create a new toolbar that is more stable.
Is asking for stablity too much? It would be a God-sent if Google would create a tool that was designed for webmasters that could poll PR correctly, maybe even give the last spider date and current spider porgress, but I know that IS asking too much.
Who knows though, a resourceful engineer/hacker could put together something like that. ;)

[takagi]

Hi Risingsunn, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

It was mentioned in other threads here at WW, that new sites also show a white bar (PR0). At my company I noticed that intranet pages now also show PR0. However, the files on my own harddisk (i.e. not using "http:" but "file:" at the address field in IE) still show a gray bar. So you are not alone in this.

.. Google would create a tool that was designed for webmasters that could poll PR correctly, maybe even give the last spider date and current spider porgress, but I know that IS asking too much.

Unfortunately for you, the toolbar was never designed for webmasters or SEOs.

[Telco_Guy]

I too have noticed some strange things with the googgle tool bar. I have gone to one of my pages that I know had a PR4 and it showed a PR0. I then looked at the Backward Links to the page and then clicked the back button. Then the PR misteriously returned to PR4. I guess it is possible that there was just some sort of delay in receiving the PR info about the page.

--Nick

[Telco_Guy]

Oh, and I checked the dll and found that I have one called GoogleToolbar_en_1.1.70-big.dll that is 458,752 bytes and appears that it was created March 2, 2003.

--Nick

[Chris_R]

The toolbar just doesn't work right right now - so I would hold off on any projects.

I use link popularity from alltheweb as a supplement to the google toolbar. You might want to try otherr search engines and alexa data for the time being.

None of them - even the toolbar is perfect (when it is working).

[Telco_Guy]

Yeah, I had heard that the toolbar might not be reporting correctly right now. But, from what I understand Alexa is only a report from people who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their computer and that it is not recommended since it is basically spyware and collects information about where you are surfing.

--Nick