Tips: Google Killing PageRank?
Sam HarrelsonContextual Ads, Google, Tips August 9th, 2007Interesting debate on a few forums dedicated to search and all things Google about the possibility of Google doing away with PageRank or at least eliminating it from the toolbar. Loren Baker has a nice post on the issue:
There is currently a debate going on right now about Google removing the PageRank score from the Google Toolbar.
Why?
- Toolbar PageRank numbers can be 3 months out of date or more.
- Some ?PR Updates? have been buggy enough to seriously misrepresent a page?s real PR.
- Matt Cutts has blogged that PR Updates are considered pretty much a non-event around Google.
- PageRank has started a flawed econonmy of link building and trading in an effort to raise or distribute these scores.
August 9th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I think they should kill off pagerank. I don’t think that its a very good indicator of how good the site is or how useful it is to people.