Gabriel Harper's Blog

I just compared Google referrals to PageRank on 37 different Websites, and here are the results. The numbers are pretty amazing. If PageRank does mean anything, it certainly doesn’t mean good search performance…

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Google Toolbar has finally outgrown it’s usefulness. After years of using the Firefox add-on, I permanently removed it from all my computers.  The PageRank display was my only reason for using the toolbar. Now PageRank isn’t very useful, the toolbar slows down browsing, and I even saved a meager 4.7MB of memory.

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Whatever Google is up to with PageRank lately, it’s quickly losing my interest. PageRank was never meant to be a reliable measure of search engine performance, but it was usually “in the neighborhood”. After the last few PageRank updates, I’ve found myself relying almost completely on other tools due to the extreme gaps I continue to observe.

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Sometimes the PageRank toolbar blacks out and it appears to be one of those times. For the last 24 hours or so it’s been reporting “No PageRank information available” for most top-level domains. Many subpages are still showing PR on the toolbar, and a lot of sites seem unaffected.

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A new update is now available for Scriptalicious PageRank Script which adds some new features and fixes some old bugs! Read the official announcement on Scriptalicious Blog and check out the forums announcement for feedback and such things.

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