What are google feeding the general public

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There are rumours that Google is now not showing true PR values Evenmore rumours abound that PR is broken, its evan been reported that thetoolbar algorytham has been cracked.There are no doubt several million ordinary folk using the GoogleToolbar by now, what do they think? Do they know that Google isfooling them or do they just think Site A is less important than SiteB?Does out of date PR influence a users browsing? I would thinkcertainly on information sites it does.Google is great and with greatness comes responsibility. Larry Pagewrote "Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remainsour number one priority".Does he refer to the end users that are being shown outdated orincorrect information?People have downloaded and installed the Google toolbar. I would thinkthat most would have also taken the time to read the finer details ofPageRank technology."The heart of our software is PageRank?, a system for ranking web pages"It's interesting that Google have brought out an updated version oftheir toolbar yet they haven't addressed this issue.Any comments on this subject Marcus AnthonyWell, I've been wondering the same. I see all sorts of new search engines popping up, like splatsearch.com (which isn't THAT great, but it's new), and I wonder how long google will hold onto the markershare. I'm guessing that Google will still be a major player for another year or so, but unless they start changing, I think people are going to move away.Any comments?I think they are going to keep their marketshare, unfortunately, or even increase it. I think ordinary people (non-SEO) just get used to it.Quote:"Google's measure of importance of this page 0/10"If I read that as a novice I would think Google was telling me that the page was worthless.ClareMarcus,Why do you believe that Google is providing incorrectresults? Sure, there are rumors, but then againthey will always be there. Is there any specificproblem that you have found with Google's PRsystem?In other words, what are the steps we can taketo reproduce the problem that you are describing?implix wrote:Marcus Anthony wrote:Quote:I would think the toolbar retreives pagerank from a (google) server. It can't possibly calculate it as you browse, nor would it be wise for obvious reasons.I don't have the link offhand but I've done it before where you can see the pagerank each google server returns. I'm pretty certain the toolbar is getting it's info from one of those.Yes, the toolbar gets the PageRank from a Google server, however the server will not send back the pagerank without the toolbar sending it a very specific checksum along with the request.It's the checksum that was cracked, allowing anybody to write scripts to find out the PR of any URL. But, that's the same PR as the toolbar, therefore 3 months old Jess wrote:thanks quantumcloud VERY intetesting stuff!Good work QC, ps PR has updated.This all sounds very interesting..