Does that mean you have agreed with all previous 500-odd posts?
Excellent!!
Not sure I understand what Google Alerts has to do with
PR value as Google just sends the new pages that match your query ... and I don't doubt that a link from an indexed .gov page can be far more powerful than another page with high
PR ... and I know the toolbar may be outdated ... but that doesn't mean
PR is useless. It does mean you have look more deeply than the toolbar ... and I will leave that to Webmauts and my intuition.
I have also noted other changes in the Google toolbar since March, so perhaps they are exporting the updates for some sites but not all ...
Happy to be back, MJ