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Besides, does anyone see any real merit from PR these days? Has it suddenly become important again? If so, that's certainly a blast from the past.
But for better or worse it is back. And looks like it will be around for a while I would have thought.
For many the PR toolbar shows perhaps the only tangible results of an SEO's link building efforts.
(This is of course neglecting SERPs, but judging by them is a lot vaguer than a straightforward PR comparison.)
GG does not see the PR toolbar servers as mission critical. For that matter, I suspect that page relevance and placement within the serps is calculated some where else than on those servers.
Believing in little green men from Mars (and Mountain View, CA) may NOT be a well founded belief after all (…and- erm, SERP rankings also aren't green!)
Private conclusion:
PR = Public Relation as one wrote in this post.
Kbleivik
"The only thing that did not lie was mathematics, simply because it could not."
I made the mistake of checking "notify me of replies" before I submitted a post on page 25.
And besides, PR's back up, the ordeal is over, and the only thing people are discussing now is speculation over Google's ethics, algo's and investor relations.
So please start a new thread. Anybody. Please!
...at least for the sake of my tired inbox.
-CR
Another reason that it generated so much comment was that once again, Google chose to say nothing about the problem. PR indeed! If they had a status report on their home page they could tell people when things are gubbed and there would not be so much speculation (or panic on some occasions.)
Let’s assume this was in some way deliberate. If a message had been posted by G there would have been little to talk/panic about. I am sure this little exercise, weather planned or not has provided the G buffs with just that little bit more knowledge about the SEO world. No one other than the optimisers gives a rats a*# about PR. SEO's are the thorn in Google's side so why should they be concerned about their public relations to us?
As far as 'PR' is concerned it is a complete waste of time. Like someone said on this forum, it makess webmasters feel like they're doing something, going somewhere. It's a great marketing tool and tracking method for Google but doesn't do much for me.
I see sites that have a pr of 4 above sites that have 7 etc...
Before linking to anysite I find out who it is, where they are, check spamhaus.... then if that looks good I spend some time looking at the site itself -
PR is a complete waste of time!
SEO's are the thorn in Google's side so why should they be concerned about their public relations to us?
They probably aren't but then the PR tool is provided to everyone, not just webmasters and SEOs. How many people use things like Froogle, University Search, Print Search, Translate, etc. Probably not many but when G knows that any of their services are not working a status bar could be used to let their users know about this. This is just common courtesy.
I see sites that have a pr of 4 above sites that have 7 etc...
Of course you do. Many PR4 sites are more relevant than PR7 sites for specific searches. That has always been the case.
Mine has not come back since it disappeared - I'm in Australia.
fyi - not sure if it was a coincidence, but i downloaded the latest toolbar version and it previously came back [ around 4 days ago ] - but just repeating it's gone down again
Thanks to some good friends who sent this simple instruction. It might be a similar case with persons using other country defaults - why doesn't Google communicate these things to make us all happy?
"You can get your google toolbar functioning again by following these steps:
1. First uninstall it
2. Re-installing it
3. Where the installer has the option "Please select a google site to
use for your searches", ensure that you leave it as the default
(google.com)
4. Also ensure that you select "enable advanced features"
For some reason google does not seem to have restored its PR info for Australian toolbar users yet and therefore if you select google.com.au
as your google site for searches the toolbar shows no pagerank.
next thing ........ my 50,000 .com.au page site went down the tube around the same time as this instability [ May 23 thru to now ] ..... any experts out there ..... could it have something to do with .au backlinks being upset in the search algorithm! ie my referral links sould somehow be caught up in the breakdown?
Guy's and Girls I'm on my knees hoping for a solution!
