Toolbar greyed for all sites?

Google's toolbar not showing PR anymore?

[cigjonser]

Does anyone else see the toolbar greyed out for all sites? I'm not getting anything.

[pageoneresults]

Just imagine if it stayed grey. An entire cottage industry built around selling PR would die overnight. There are quite a few people sweating bullets right now. ;)

Me thinks there are server issues on Google's side and that PageRank will probably reappear shortly.

[edited by: pageoneresults at 5:21 pm (utc) on May 28, 2005]

[eatapeach]

i've been using firefox for almost a year and only open up explorer to check a site's pagerank or to watch flash animations.

if visible pr is gone that is me just getting one step closer to abandoning explorer alltogether :)

[jdhuk]

Larry and Sergey have made the transition to the dark side and now are sith lords..

I couldn't care a less about pr..

Let me re-phrase that for you...

Larry and Sergey couldn't care less

With a few billion in the bank would you? I wouldn't ;)

[TrustNo1]

There was talk before the IPO of Google dropping page rank because Stanford still held the patent and they would have to pay. But it's just a glitch, this has happened before.

[BillyS]

Hmm, just a glitch? It's been gone for over 12 hours. That's more than enough time to reboot a couple thousand servers. More than enough time to restore from whatever backup system they use...

Me thinks that this is a pretty big glitch and we might wind up with a PageRank update because they're rerunning all the numbers. What else could possibly take so long?

[EquityMind]

I'm just imagining the implications right now. SEO will then become more an art than a science and for someone just now trying to get into this space forget it. Those of us with good memories of what sites were what will have a leg up at least in the short term.

Analytics will begin to play a larger role and other sources of information will need to be relied upon when initiating discussion or strategic partnerships, whether to take on a new client, determining if a site has been banned for instance.

[mrMister]

But it's just a glitch, this has happened before.

Yes, I remember this happening before around the time of Florida.

[steveb]

"An entire cottage industry built around selling PR would die overnight."

Only just the words. The cottage industry would get an enormous boost if the PR display stays gone. Text link selling will at least double and probably much more than that. PR will continue to exist whether the toolbar shows it or not, and now every blog spamming twit will point to their thousands of backlinks and say "look at all my backlinks, I have high internal PR, buy links from me".

[tantalus]

>"look at all my backlinks, I have high internal PR, buy links from me.

...but the impact of manipulating google's real PR would be lessened. Something I think Google would want to see, Particularly over the long term.

[vincentg]

It might be due to an email I sent them.
The PR is calculated wrong in some cases.

Some have figured out that a Re-write will alter the PR in some cases.

This alteration shows a higher PR than should be and is a math problem.

It also may play into the what is known as the 302 problem. Might be related.

Guess they will work it out.

Vincent G.