I know these are not on schedule.. but when do you think is the next update... has not been one for quite some time...

According to Googleguy, G now updates toolbar PR roughly every quarter. Note that toolbar PR is often completely different than actual PR. According to the founder of Teoma and Ask Jeeves engineer - Apostolos Gerasoulis, G has abandoned the use of PR altogether. See http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/s...topic-1290.htm

I think in 2-3 weeks time as i understand that Google has recently done some major changes in his listing criterias also which has created some major shuffle in the listings.

What does Ask Jeeves have to do with Google? Why would anyone there have any information that we don't?

I was asking the same question.. because to me the competition will discredit the threats as much as possible..

I know silly rabbits who purchase domains PURELY on PR and not on quality of traffic.

I was simply asking because I have been building up quite a bit... went from 4M+ in alexa to 468K in about a month ...

Not anything to jump up and down about.. but shows steady growth....

It doesn't.

Simply visit your own site with an elexa-enabled-toolbar and you can get your site down to about 100-150K on your own

I guess its safe to assume that Alexa's rating doesn't mean JACK then?

Pretty much... with about 10 people we got my friends site in the 25k zone.

I wonder why so many people still put a lot of emphasis on Google Pagerank and their Alexa rating? Are there any actual uses for it?

The mian reason in my opinion is for advertisers to sell at higher rates... so boosted rank means inflated prices for advertising...