Hiding true PR

[clasione]

I'm trying to figure someting out here and I'm going to through it out there for others to feed the idea...

We already know that Google hides the current pagerank levels until they feel neccessary to release this information to the public.

We also know that the Google directory in most cases is the best and most accurate way of seeing what a sites current pagerank level is when we cannot use the toolbar...

Now the question is this:

I'm not sure exactly how these future pagerank testers work. I know that basically, they query the different datacenters that Google uses and compares the pagerank to show differences between centers, but how exactly is this done...

Where are the hidden datacenters that we know they must have... There has got to be a hidden datacenter that feeds the current levels to the Google directory, what datacenter is that?

I suspect there must be even another datacenter which is the center that updates last, sometime before the visible update takes place on the toolbar.

Where I am going with this is, how can google feed the pagerank indicator on the toolbar seperate level indicators while avioding the future pagerank tools....?

I suspect, from things that I am seeing, that future pagerank tools are likely to be a tool of the past....

It's just unlike google to let us see what they don't want us to see....

There has got to be a way they can send data to the toolbar without anyone knowing where that data is coming from..

[seo_expert]

hi Clasione,

go through this Article. It is very informative..

GOOGLE GUY NAILED TO THE GROUND AND FORCED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS!

http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/december_2003.html

Few excerpt from the article:

Daniel: Okay, so first, how accurate is the toolbar? Well, I don't want to give too 'nerdy' an answer here Mike, but there's two things really: there's accuracy and there's precision. And, in terms of accuracy, it is a completely accurate indicator of the PageRank of a page.

We don't... well, we don't lie in the PageRank bar. But it's not very precise. We have a lot more precision available to us than we represent in a ten step scale or whatever it is on the PageRank tool...

Mike: So there is data - but it's not precise! Does this mean then, that if I have PageRank seven and my competitor has PageRank nine, I shouldn't really have a breakdown and go and visit my therapist or anything...[Laughs]

Daniel: Not really!

So, the second part of the question was, are people focusing too much on PageRank. I guess that depends on what they're after really. You know, if they're curious about PageRank and how it works, well that's really why we put that bar on the toolbar in the first place. You know, if people are just casually surfing the web they can see what Google's PageRank impression of that page is. And that's great. I'm all for people doing that.

But for search engine marketing, search engine optimisation purposes, yeah, I'd say that there's too much emphasis placed on what that PageRank number actually is. Our job as a search engine is to return the best results that we can. And we're not naive enough to think that we can condense every indicator about a page into a number from one to ten. We certainly can't do that.

So, if people are trying to look at what we're doing and their idea is based on that single number from one to ten, then ... well, they're not going to be effective in figuring out what we're doing at all.

[escante]

Very good article there.

[Websmarts]

OH NICE ! Thanx for the great post se0_expert~

[SEO-Man]

Thank you for sharing the artical i enjoyed very much reading it well worth taking the time to read it.