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Google Will (Probably) Not Be Updating Toolbar PageRank Again, John Mueller Confirms
Google’s last Toolbar PageRank update, which rolled out on December 2013, may have been its last as Google’s John Mueller stated in a recent Google Hangout.

A question was asked by a frustrated individual who couldn’t understand why so many spammy sites selling PR6 backlinks had not been dealt with despite having been reported to Google multiple times.

Mueller’s response is as follows:

“There are a few things where we do take action that you might not see directly. Toolbar PageRank is something that we have not updated for about a year now, and we’re probably not going to be updating it going forward… we have a lot of way to recognize these problematic links, and the sites selling those links, that essentially blocks the PageRank from passing through those

Mueller also mentioned that he would go through the individual’s list of spammy sites to see if he can find anything that Google’s algorithms aren’t picking up on.

So Mueller really dropped two interesting pieces of news here. One was that PageRank will (most likely) not be updated going forward, and the second was that Google has measures in place to stop do-follow backlinks from passing PageRank if they’re on a site that Google finds to be especially spammy.

With this information now out in the open, I can only hope that the customers keeping these sites in business eventually stop buying links and we start seeing this trend going away.
PageRank never was added to Chrome.

Thinking back, Google never did add a PageRank to their own browser, Chrome. In fact, the only way to see PageRank on Chrome is if you install an extension by a 3rd party developer. If it had a future you’d think they’d

 

[AEProgram]

Worthless? Yes and No.

Whenever you have people arguing over the value of something you cannot label to item in question worthless. The value is what someone will pay for it.

We see this with stocks all the time when there is a debate if say company XYZ is worth something or not, everyone agrees at one point it was worth something, the question is, is it currently still worth something, will it be worth something in the future, how much etc.

The rule is, it's worth what someone wants to pay for it.

What is a PR9 worth that has not been indexed in google much? To some it is worth 0 to some they would pay good money to have their link on a PR9.

Personally, I don't know,, and with the amount of information out there that contradict each others nobody knows 100%.

 

[slinky]

Pagerank is still kept internally at Google. What it actually is will no longer be able to be viewed using an external source like a toolbar. That's it, no more no less.