Incredible PR5 Site - Must See!!1!eleven!1!

[mike]

I hate even bringing up anything to do with PR and all that, but sometimes I run into stuff with such a 'what the hell?!' factor that I just can't help myself.

For example:
I was trying to go to Google's video site and mistakenly typed in googlevideo.com instead of video.google.com.

At first I was just a little surprised that somebody other than Google owned the domain. Then I read their disclaimer about being non profit and all that and found that somewhat amusing. But when I looked at the PR and saw a big fat 5, I literally laughed out loud.

Here's a page with no content -there are literally 25 lines in the whole HTML document, they have no inbound links (ok, 6), and you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce why this non-commercial, non-profit site exists.

But they have a PR 5.

Anybody want to take a stab at explaining this?

[scanmonkey]

One good link can get you a PR5. Kind of amazed that Google would not have jumped all over googlevideo.com

googlevideo.com has a nice link here. Wondering if it is a mistake.

[kgun]

Is it different in Norway? Google toolbarrank = 0.

[StephenR.]

Could be the datacenters are just realigning right now kgun. It's a 5. Yep, one good link can give you that inflated PR value.

[southplatte]

Maybe google has a way of placing value on traffic or unique traffic that is not necessarily tied to inbound links? I bet they may have a way to determine the amount of traffic a site gets, and if this site is typed in often and gets really high traffic, maybe that's a factore. Not that I know anything, but who knows about google and their capabilities??

[effisk]

You might want to try this query instead of the google link: query as suggested in the first post:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...&bwmo=d&bwmf=s

This is the explaination.

PS: just so you know, Yahoo Site Explorer gives much better results for that kind of queries than Google. The link:, site:, etc. commands are being restricted by Google for a few reasons that have been widely discussed on the internet before.

[greeneagle]

effisk - please expand and cite - Good call Mike..

Ken

[williamc]

Mike, it only takes one link from a pr6 site to get a pr5. Or several links from pr5 sites even for that matter.

The site also has a few 301 redirects aimed at it from domains with links.

[timmathews.com]

That is very strong. I am curious how long G will let them have the domain before a cease and desist comes?

[williamc]

effisk - please expand and cite - Good call Mike..

I would have thought everyone selling SEO services knew googles link: command only showed around 5-10% of the links they actually know about by now. Guess I was wrong in your case.