September 28, 2008 5:36 pm GMT
PageRank Bug or a miracle?
by Gary IllyesWhile for some of the webmasters the last few days can be the most happy day in their short life, some of them are crying at the doors of the Google Dome for a good answer.
Why? Google’s tenth birthday resulted a worldwide Page Rank update in the Google datacenters, which made some webmasters go mad, because sites with a page rank of 6 or even more suddenly dropped to 3-4.
And why some webmasters are happy? Because their domains got extremely high rankings. I saw people whos websites with no 0 or no page rank suddenly got a page rank of 3-4 or even higher.
My case is even weirder. One of the domains I use for development purposes, never opened for the public and behind a HTTP authentication, all of sudden got a PR 8? I guess that’s , well, weird.
The recent page rank update it seems started the day before yesterday, so that makes Friday, September 26, 2008. In a moment all the sites I visit on a daily basis had their page ranks changed.
How do I check page rank? That’s simple: Google Toolbar.
By the way, which is more plausible: Google updated the PageRanks and for some websites they were extremely generous, or as they also released the new Google Toolbar, they adjusted something in the algorithm which calculates the PageRank , and they accidentally coded a bug in the algorithm?
Dany on Mon, 29th Sep 2008 1:00 pm
Yup, I racon its a bug. I noticed some strange changes in PR too. SEDO.com used to be PR4 or highr but all of a suden its down to PR3.
I am sure everybody knows here how big SEDO is and what PR it deserv…
methode on Wed, 1st Oct 2008 7:25 pm
well, I guess all the people who sold domains on the net encountered the SEDO at least once. I don’t know, I see PR6 on Sedo.
For those who don’t know. SEDO (http://www.sedo.com) is the world greatest domain auction site. If you have a domain for sale, try it. It’s a peace of art in my humble opinion