Directory Update

No PR three deep...

[BillyS]

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but the PR of the Google directory seems to have updated. What I've noticed is that there is no PR for any category that is more than three deep in the directory.

I'm seeing this on Google.com (64.233.161.147).

[Clint]

FWIW, On another thread, that's one of the IP's I mentioned that had better results for my key phrases, AND I should add also had fewer BS results.

[helleborine]

I see PR on even the deepest directory pages.

[BillyS]

With all respect... I am NOT seeing PR on the toolbar for certain levels, for example:

[google.com...]

or translating into the DC I am being served...

[64.233.161.147...]

No PR for this any many others at deep levels.

[trillianjedi]

No PR for this any many others at deep levels.

You can safely ignore toolbar PR - it hasn't been reliable for many months now.

TJ

[steveb]

Not sure what you are looking at but there is PR on that DC for sites on every deep level I looked at.

If you mean there is no PR for this exact page: [64.233.161.147...]
there never is PR for the datacenter directory pages.

Last thing, look at [directory.google.com...] rather than just [google.com...]

They do appear to be having dupe content issues with the two different directory locations, with many high PR pages on directory.google.com now going grey bar with their google.com twin now displaying white bars and being the indexed page.

Just another example of how higher PR is zero guarantee in terms of Google picking the correct canonical page.

[brokenbricks]

The directory has been very screwy for me over the past 2 weeks. My site is found only sometimes, I assume on certain data centers, and then not found at all during the same day.

It's been back and forth like that for a couple weeks for me, except this week things have seemed to settle down and it remains there.

[vdoyl]

My site is found when using the search, but not found in the listings in the respective category, although the search returns a link to the category :)

It seems that some update is in progress there...

[BillyS]

Whether I go to directory.google.com or www.google.com/Top, I can find LOTS of deep pages that USED to have PR that are now showing PR=0. I follow several directories and KNOW this to be true.

[steveb]

Lots is not all. There are lots though that are clearly effected by being duplicates, with cacheing and displayed PR being inconsistent between the two duplicates.

Hopefully they will learn something and take one version offline. Either that or they are just experimenting to see how totally buggered their dupe content / canonical page understanding is.