Interesting thing about amazon

How?

[bubbleman]

Hey guys
look at [amazon.com...] ..they only have a PR of 3...
but they have 48400 back links from their site only from google, and there are lots others from other search engines..
y is that? PR of 3 with 48,400 links? i don't get this
thanks

[Mohamed_E]

When I type www.amazon.com into the IE address bar I am in fact taken to:

www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/some-numbers

which greets me by name. Looks like I, for one, cannot get to the "real" amazon home page, which I am sure has a much higher PR.

[Night_Hawk]

Try this [amazon.com...]
They have a PR of 8

[bnhall]

Or [amazon.com ] which has a PR9.

[xlcus]

I, for one, cannot get to the "real" amazon home page, which I am sure has a much higher PR

By setting up a virtual 'amazon.com' host on my Apache web server/proxy, I was able to see what PR the Google Toolbar reported for the Amazon root pages...

At the moment both [amazon.com...] and [amazon.com...] have a PR of 9

[ideavirus]

Ooops, I noticed the same thing today...

When i type in [amazon.com...] i get a long url when the page loads...and shows the PR of 3...i was like shocked...which is obviously unbelivable!

[Grumpus]

See why Google doesn't like redirects? It gets confoozed. Imagine if they had just 1 landing page up front - the PR would be like Spinal Tap's guitar amps - this one goes up to 11.

G.

[bubbleman]

that's true grumpus