Page rank from toolbar and www2

Is there a way

[bateman_ap]

Is there a way, I think I may have seen it before but can't find it, to modify the toolbar so it gets pagerank from www2 so we can see our likely new pageranks during the dance?

[Go_Madrid]

Update your registry so that the GoogleHome key is www2 (or www3) instead of www.google.com

[chris_f]

That doesn't work.

It still queries the main GG database. A friend of mine was the person who found a registry manipulation, however, I have since rebuilt my machine and been in a major fight with him. I there cannot remember the string to put in the ref :(.

_{He also had an Opera version of the GG toolbar working using a fake registry. He did something VERY technical.}

[Go_Madrid]

Well it works for me if I change the registry setting and then close all browser windows. All options (search, links, cache, pagerank etc.) start working on the www3 domain instead of the normal one.

[bateman_ap]

It seems to search using www2 by doing that trick but doesn't seem to update the PR.

[Go_Madrid]

Are you sure you're checking a site whose PR will change in the new update? It's quite possible that the www2 PR is still the same as last month's.

[foy]

Go_Madrid, how can I update my registry settings with the google toolbar settings?

[bateman_ap]

Go to start, run and type regedit

Then search for google until you get the key where it says www.google.com for i think googlehome.

Change this to www2.google.com

[foy]

thanks

[satanclaus]

hmmmm....Your instructions seem pretty straight forward but I've been unable to locate the key you're talking about.

[korkus2000]

That fix will only allow you to search from www2 or www3. You will not grab PR. I have tested it heavily in the past.

Regedit path to the googlehome key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\NavClient\1.1\Options

double click and change the value. You can now use the search to query www2 or www3.

[edited by: korkus2000 at 5:24 pm (utc) on June 24, 2002]

[satanclaus]

korkus do you know of another? I'm starting to think the "toolbar fix" is a myth.

[korkus2000]

I have not actually seen one to date. chris_f appearently did have a fix at one time. It has been lost.

here is the last time we discussed it.
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