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No PR on the toolbar

Don't get scared if your site suddenly has no PR anymore. It appears that the PR value in the Google toolbar isn't working for a whole bunch of folks. Wonder if we're getting an update soon or if this is just some server downtime.

- Dani out

cscgal
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dani, why did you break it . . . geez.

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It wasn't me! It wasn't me! I promise ;)

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We have witnesses, they saw you do it.

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Hmm, hours later and still no PageRank? It doesn't seem like a glitch in their servers but maybe a planned outage? Google's way of phasing out PR maybe? Querying their server via their API doesn't seem to be doing the trick either.

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Not just the toolbar! Besides my toolbar not showing PR, I just tried checking some sites on SEO Chat's pagerank lookup - and its not working either!

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Yes, well all that the SEO tools (such as those found on SEOChat) do is query the toolbar server. :)

However, I think I've ruled out the idea that this is just a glitch. If on the off chance that pagerank was accidently taken down sitewide, G has enough resources that they could have gotten it back up by now if they really wanted to.

They have something up their sleeves :)

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i believe they are recompiling the google public pagerank. my reasons for believing so:
1.backlinks were updated last week
2.many have had 67/10 Pr before this happened
3.rumors of an algorithm change

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What do you mean 67/10?

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there was a thread on sitepoint that someone posted that said they had 67/10 pr on the toolbar just before it went unavailable.

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67/10? You mean a PR of 6.7? Huh?

Update: nevermind, I found the thread - http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267321

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i am guessing the downtime of PR was due to recent google update

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This article has been dead for over three months

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