Brand new page get PR4

What? How is this possible

[Phil_S]

Hello,
This Saturday I built a few brand new pages uploaded them and when I checked them, they all had a PR4.

I check this from different computers, just in case.

Instantly? Google does not even know about these pages yet.

Thanks.

[Shakil]

Phil,

Guessed PR at work.

check to see if they have any "backlinks" and you will notice NO.

so its guessed PR based on the rest of the site methinks.

Shak

[darkroom]

does this mean that google is still in its deepcrawl session?

[Night_Hawk]

I had a site that got indexed by google and got a pr 6 with no backlinks, but it droped the next month to pr 5 and the last update got a gray bar.

[Shakil]

darkroom:

Google does not even know about these pages yet.
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should give you a clue :)

Shak

[webdiversity]

The PR is usually adopted from the page above in the directory structure, measured from the root - 1.

So if your home page had a PR5 then any new pages linked directly off the root page will adopt a PR4. Obviously, as Google don't know about the page then it's not a true rank, it's an estimate.