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I think GoogleGuy has just been to the office and put the plug back in.
Nope, folks were already getting the toolbar PageRank re-displaying without me prodding them. It should be on everywhere in a couple more hours or so.
This is just plain old normal toolbar PageRank--no trustrank or update to the visible PageRank. I wouldn't have expected 400 posts over a (U.S.) holiday weekend because people couldn't check the green bar; I'll ask a few engineers to try to minimize the length of anything like that in the future. Dayo_UK, yup, officially it still is my vacation, but it seemed like a good idea to chime in so people wouldn't overly worry until PR became visible again.
Toolbar PR is working again.
dang it - my evil plan download Google's version of the DMOZ with pagerank info - then sell the data back to webmasters trying to figure out who to request links from is foiled.
People trade based on what the green bar says. Google put it there in the first place, and everyone bought into it, so I'm suggesting that Google is controlling site owners actions. Quite logical I thought.
Although you personally don't have to download it or buy into it - quite clearly others have! Flatter anyone and you can control them to an extent, especially when PageRank basically means some sort of status, and business is done purely because of Pagerank. I think it's a bad call to do business or swap links due to a little green bar, but millions don't.
Google has flattered websites that quite frankly don't deserve the web space, and the proof of that flattery is on every site you see. Some flattery is well deserved and some just isn't, but Pagerank is just a tool that aids a VIRAL marketing ploy, and everyone bought into it.
Very clever and it fooled everyone into thinking that they were actually getting something great for free.
I call that dirty, but if people really think that any site with a say PR of 2 cannot deliver, then their crazy. But people do obviously feel that way - they've no proof that companies can or can't deliver, but they seem to think that Google somehow knows this. And all because of a stupid green bar.
This thread is proof of those fears and feelings - is that not Control now?
Still whatever people decide one things for sure - Google wins! Maybe at others expense in the future.....
Oh... wait.
That really is a banned site...
ha ha ha ha
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That really is a banned site...
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(boo hoo hoo hoo)
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My site too, but not the much newer and not so useful Norwegian sites. I use pagerang as one among other criterias to collect international links. I also use my eyes. Does GoogleBot see the difference between a seagul, a crow, a cloud or an areoplane? But the green bar indicates the maturity of a site. A site with the green bar 1/3 or more filled, says that it is not the risk that it is a spam site, but who knows? The mafia may have a lot of mature sites. What about content? I index sites, GoogleBot index pages. I have nofollow and noarchive in my metatags still.
I use Google "Safe search" as the top search engine on my index (front) page. Do you have a better proposal?
Kbleivik
"KISS=Keep It Simple Stupid".
