At a glance PageRank data for link research results. Any use?

Most useful way of displaying pagerank by fictitious link research tool

[Philiboy]

Just supposing you were conceiving the perfect link building tool which searched for potential link partners. Would you choose to list the Google PageRank alongside the search results (i.e. each url for the potential search partner)? Note that each result may not necessarily be the page where the researcher's link would go, but if this fictitious tool displayed the PR for the homepage of the search result as well as the PR for the search result (for all results on the page e.g. 10 results, so all the pageranks could be seen at a glance), would this data be of any value? If you were developing it, would you perhaps choose to omit this data, so the user could assess the results just in terms of relevance? I'd be interested in hearing people's views.

[wheel]

Depends on your market. If you did display PR, you'd actually scare off the high quality stuff IMO. Displays like that are the last place I'm going.

Conversely, the majority of folks running lower quality sites don't have a clue beyond PR.

If you want high volume low quality, show the PR and take the associated risk. If you want high quality low volume, drop the PR reference.

[Philiboy]

Thanks, Wheel. Do you think tools such as #*$!'s PageRank search and Pr Prowler are only suitable for the low quality market?

[Philiboy]

The other question I have, which follows on from the above discussion, is whether Google would permit the display of the PageRank data by a commercial tool. The tool on SEO chat seems to get away with it (but it is non-commercial). Would it just be a matter of including the text "PageRank Search is not associated with Google"? I heard from one of the link building experts in the UK that a certain wellknown link building tool which analyse the effect of links on ranking got into trouble from Google by including some pagerank based functionality. Note that the one whose logo is a purple wildcat is a commercial tool and it's whole existence is based on analysing pagerank. Perhaps it gets away with it by calling it PR.