search "http://" in google.com

not from the tool bar

[jpavery]

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4. SE Tip

Try a search for "http://" in Google. The results? A list of all Websites indexed by Google ranked by their importance (PageRank). The top sites include Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, AltaVista, Excite, Amazon, CNN, Go.com and Lycos. If you can get a link from any of the sites listed in the Top 100, even if it isn't on their frontpage, you'll be on the road to search engine success.

source: The Template Store (hope that is OK)
</snip>

I tried it - cool results...
JP

[mack]

I found a PR0 on the 6th page of the serps :)

[jomaxx]

This has been discussed before, and IIRC that search does not in fact rank sites simply by pagerank.

...but what is up with this?

I fire up Explorer and enable the toolbar. Any site I visit via typing in the URL generally has some PR value displayed. Any site I visit via a standard Google search generally has some PR value displayed.

BUT any site I visit after doing that "http://" search mentioned above has the pagerank bar GREYED OUT. This has happened with at least a dozen sites, going back & forth between different ways of accessing them.

I guess it's possible the toolbar passes a referring page type field and is not responding to requests that follow this particular search. Anybody else seeing this effect?

[mack]

I Just tried that. The site I saw with a PR0 when searching for "http://" had a PR of 7 when I went to it by direct request.

Interesting observation.

[TWhalen]

Why are there no AdWords ads on a search like that?
(just wondering...)

Anyone know offhand?

[mack]

probably no one willing to waste their money on a search that is way to generalised.

[jomaxx]

It would be a great way to target professional SEO's who are trying this trick. Who else is going to enter such a dumbass search phrase?

[kendos]

And how do you explain the difference between 231 000 000 search results and the 3,083,324,652 pages indexed?