Does Google Pagerank 4 really change crawling rate?

[moshebar]

hey,
i've read in several places that when a page has PR4 it gets crawled more often (once a day or something like that).
I have PR3 (according to ALL pr checker websites i've been to), and up until last month when i wrote in google site:mysite.net it did not say anything special, but now, every time i write site:mysite.net it says "x hours ago" when x is ALWAYS less than 24 hours .

so first, i have to say i am very happy - the last two months hard SEO work was paid off, at least crawl-rate-wise, but my PR is still 3.

so my question is this:
is it possible that my PR is actually 4 but it still didn't update itself (i know it takes time), or is it still 3, but it's just that my improvements (one of the improvements is a dynamically changing updates on the main page, etc.) made google "understand" that my website does change very often and hence it should be crawler more often ?

i have to say - i haven't done any backlinking improvements - i only made the inbound links better in a lot of ways, along with ALOT more seo improvements .

any way - i'm happier with google at the moment :)
(i also got to the first page in a very competitive keyword :))

[pontifex]

Here we go again - the Pagerank discussion is out of the sandbox :-)

moshebar:

The PageRank you see in your toolbar (and therefor on all the PR checkers - if not, an update is in progress) is outdated. Right now by apprx. 3 months (I think)...

Also your backlinks, which are displayed in Google or the site explorer are about 3 months behind your work.

Your only real indicators are - as you mentioned - the crawl rate and the actual RANK of your urls for a specific term... the rest will show up soon (i guess)...

P!

[snickles121]

Pagerank is over rated in my opinion.

Most of my web sites only have a 2 or 3 pagerank and we rank on the first page for many high demand keywords.

Quality content and one way inbound links are the key to good keyword results in google.

P.S. I had a website with a pr5 and my keyword ranking were horrible.

This just shows you not to place to much on the page rank.