Wow...YouTube PR3?

[wyspa03]

Weird...Do you see the same? is one the most popular web2.0 sites (owned by Google) downgraded to pr3? Seems that's only homepage maybe it is only G glicht..
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[cass-hacks]

Or, Google may have changed the scale used to convert internal PageRank to toolbar PageRank in which case sites might not necessarily be demoted but instead, everyone's position shifted the same amount which brings everyone back to basically where they were before with respect to each other.

As the number of pages indexed increases and the number of links increase along with it, the scale naturally has to change as well or sites would sooner or later be off the top end of toolbar PageRank.

It would seem though that if the scale changing is what happened, that this may be the first time Google has shifted the scale although if it has shifted it, will it continue doing so on future updates, assuming there are any or did it shift things far enough so that it won't need to shift again for some time to come?

[martty]

Originally Posted by cass-hacks

Or, Google may have changed the scale used to convert internal PageRank to toolbar PageRank in which case sites might not necessarily be demoted but instead, everyone's position shifted the same amount which brings everyone back to basically where they were before with respect to each other.

...but YouTube's internal pages PR are where they used to be -- its just the home page.

[cass-hacks]

Originally Posted by martty

...but YouTube's internal pages PR are where they used to be -- its just the home page.

That is very interesting!

Looking at the internal pages, the videos, I see them range from 0 to 3, that is what they were before or there are other pages with higher toolbar PageRank also?

[incrediblehelp]

PR 8 here.