Toolbar greyed for all sites?

Google's toolbar not showing PR anymore?

[cigjonser]

Does anyone else see the toolbar greyed out for all sites? I'm not getting anything.

[kgougakis]

Yes pr was good but with no profit for them!

[kgun]

Why not use marketleap or similar tools?

Competition among different search engines is best in the long run. Or is'nt it?

Kbleivik
Make is simple, as simple as possible, but no simpler.

[steveb]

"Everybody who's serious in seo looks at pagerank . Anybody who doesn't lies or doesn't knwo what there talking about. There are ways to overcome this problem but this means more work for serious seo professionals."

As they say in church: bingo.

[Kirby]

>this means more work for serious seo professionals.

And a ton of guessing and wild speculation for everyone else.

After reading this stuff, seeing how many buy into totally unsubstantiated BS, and reading the email I'm getting from frantic "webmasters", I am beginning to understand steveb's postulation that the death of displayed PR will only give rise to an industry of seo snakeoil salesmen that will dwarf the link merchants.

[longen]

Post IPO g needs more $'s - so why not bring out a "premier" SEO Toolbox, which shows accurate page counts, links, PR, etc.

[larryhatch]

I'm running Firefox, and installed a toolbar extensions. Like others, I'm seeing Google PR greyed out now.

I don't know how the G-PR bar actually works, but doesn't the extension or toolbar have to make a
SEPARATE inquiry to G to get the data?
If so, then maybe all those extra queries put too much of an extra load on their servers / bandwidth.

Since there's no obvious payback, cutting out toolbar PR might just be a simple cost / bandwidth saving
stragegem. Their internal (real) pagerank would remain in place, subject to algorithm tweeks,
and hidden from all in any case. Any thoughts on that? -Larry

[digitalv]

I really find it hard to believe that Google would drop PageRank without making a MAJOR announcement to go along with it. I'm actually a little surprised that so many WebmasterWorld members are speculating this is what happened.

Google is a public company now ... they don't go making major changes to their system without a press release. Millions use the Google toolbar, not just webmasters, so it's highly unlikely that PageRank would be phased out of the toolbar without an announcement. Besides, many of us in this forum are Google shareholders and if Google had planned to drop PR we would know about it. This is a temporary situation or an upgrade, not an elimination.

Also keep in mind that Google still has numerous references to PageRank on their site, including the "PageRank Explained" information on google.com/technology. If they were doing away with it, that page wouldn't be there anymore.

[mack]

why would they need to inform anyone. It's a minor feature. PR in it'self is major, but displaying it is not. The display has been no more than a toy for at least a year. Personaly I would be glad if it where to go. But like most in this thread I belive it is either a glitch or some form of rework/improvement.

Mack.

[annada]

Hmm, for the 3rd day, google PR is down.
We are facing problem in delivering links to clients.

[joeduck]

I think mack is probably right - OF COURSE Google still measures PR since it's a critical part of the ranking mechanism. They may bring it back but they may also have simply decided that showing PR was doing more harm than good as it was "interpreted" and used by link and SEO communities.