Google Page Rank Gone from Toolbar

May 30, 2005

For aspiring Webmasters in the Internet world this has come as quite a shock. Since I started developing websites last year, I have paid quite a bit of attention to a site’s Page Rank.

Suddenly, since from around Friday the PageRank is greyed-out on all websites. Page Rank was used as some kind of ranking for webmasters to value a website.

Supposedly, the higher the rank, the higher the popularity of the site. This site got to a Page Rank of 5 in only a few months.

Anyway it was getting too easy to exploit by spamsters, so I suppose Google has decided to drop it. I think the biggest surprise for people is that the decision has come completely unannounced. They had recently released a new toolbar, without the PageRank feature, but I don’t think anyone noticed.

I think it gets people worried if anything changes to the Google Adsense program.

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