Maybe removing pr will stop spamming and other bad practices, but if for nothing else page rank provides competition which is always healthy. Seems like we are removing competition from everything these days. In addition to looking for sites to link to we discover websites we wouldn't normally search for. I think having pr promotes completion and discovery. Just a thought.
PR is not disappearing Google says what it said 2 years ago but people got caught in a hysteria wave because pr update is taking to long.
on some other forums people say that according to the info from source close to google Pagerank is canceled and will not be updated any more
Google won't abandon Pagerank because if they did, we'd be forced to use Alexa (which is easy to manipulate).
It's about time they did this. Aside from the spammers and scammers, webmasters in general focus way too much on page rank, like it's the gold standard of how well they're doing.
They won't get rid of PageRank as if they did another company like SeoMOZ would move in and use their MozRANK as an alternative
Removing page rank from our toolbars doesn't change the reality that getting links improve your serps. We'll just find other ways to measure our sucess and it will pave the wave for another company like alexa to create their own PR that we can follow!
Quantcast has replaced Alexa for me. They've been crap for years, only supporting IE and charging for their sites lists. Quantcast offers a free download of their 1 million top sites. I believe Alexa does the same thing now, but only after quantcast started to offer theirs for free.
Is there any reliable or authority source to show that Google is going to abandon PR? I want to have a look on that first before going for a discussion.
Seems like most of this is coming from SEO "gurus" who can't even SEO their own websites, and the information from big G is always vague (they practice being vague ) PR is built into the Google algorithm and will not be removed anytime soon. While, yes, PR can be 'faked' or 'pumped', for the most part it does show a sense of authority. After all, this is the internet, so rules have to be set as to how authority is distributed - and the google PR system is one of the only well put together broad-range standards out there.