Holy Smoke!!! Google's PR is 0!!!!

[dilipsam]

Did anybody notice the PR for google.com? It was ZERO!!!!

All datacenters were checked.

Somebody please confirm this. No I'm not drooling but Andreas of Bloofusion just informed me.

End of PR?!!!

Regards,
Dilip Samuel

[cbp]

PR0 from here - a site:www.google.com returns nothing found

looks like they banned themselves, google.com does not show up in a search for google !!! - all the regional G's show up.

google.com.au is showing 9

CBP

[HardCoded]

LOL

..oh sorry, nothing useful to add.

[cbp]

Maybe they used Traffic Power ???

CBP

[dilipsam]

Lol, forget that. If Google is severe on itself, then imagine the situation of naive webmasters who have entrusted the work upon unethical SEOs

I wished to see an UFO but this is more bizzare than that.

[ECommerceConversions]

Maybe google filters out its own domains and then just gives an automatic ten? All their domains are ten right?


link:www.google.com returns absolutely nothing, hence, they gotta either be filtering or excluding googles own PR calculation.

now if someone could just steal a google domain

[Dave Hawley]

Google.com = PR0 LOL! This will start some good rumours and conspiracies :)

A Link: check shows no links to them either! That might just survive though, a search for Google still has them at number 1.

[Paranormal]

www.google.ca is the number one result interesting....

[cbp]

Maybe they were trying to ban googles.com and somebody pushed the wrong button ....

CBP

[Jason Tor]

Originally Posted by cbp

Maybe they used Traffic Power ???

CBP

ROTFLMAO!!!

[JohnF]

With google a PR0, my site as at long last as important as theirs.

JF

[rikki_wholesale-cleaning]

Originally Posted by JohnF

With google a PR0, my site as at long last as important as theirs.

JF

i like that theory! Made me chuckle!

[tcampione]

Another one one that I find humorous:

Do a Google search on the terms Search Engines. Google shows their own listing as #6, behind Lycos, Dogpile, Yahoo, and AltaVista.

They beat out HotBot though :-)

[greeneagle]

What's even funnier is SearchEngingineWatch beat them all out in the SERPs with a lower PR and fewer fewer IBL's. Hmmm! - I guess public PR and IBL's don't hold the only quality indicators for the SERPs.
Is it content holding that much value?

Ken

[tcampione]

SearchEngineWatch as #1 is very interesting. It does support my theory (as posted in the validator thread) that on general search terms, Google gives preference to informational sites over product/service offering sites.

/*tom*/

[Dave Hawley]

IMO, there is no "preference". Google simply returns the most relevant pages (according to it's algo)that match the search term.

Let's face it, http://searchenginewatch.com/ is highly optimized for the term "Search Engines" so it's no surprise or mystery.

[Curious George]

We all know now that the PR 0 was due to the virus attack few days ago :-).

I hope they invest their IPO proceeds on technology upgrades. They need to dump those windows machines and upgrade to Unix and Linux boxes.

Curious George

[tcampione]

Originally Posted by Dave Hawley

Let's face it, http://searchenginewatch.com/ is highly optimized for the term "Search Engines" so it's no surprise or mystery.

Agreed, but if SEO were the predominant factor, every SERP 1 would be the top 10 best optimized for those keywords.

Originally Posted by Dave Hawley

IMO, there is no "preference". Google simply returns the most relevant pages (according to it's algo) that match the search term.

This seems to imply that there is a straight forward mathematical process that determines relevancy, and therefore position. You could very well be right.

IMHO, there's more to it. I'm not suggesting human manipulation as some do. However, I would think that heuristics play a significant role in the algo. This is pure conjecture on my part.

/*tom*/