If people are dependent on something like PR to feed their families that is sad.. I guess they will just have to go to the dump and collect plastic bottles now. Adapt or die and don't base your existence on a fleeing fad.
Yes,its true that the people that feed their family by selling links should not depend entirely on Pagerank.But people who buy links on PR sites easily rank in search engine leaving quality sites behind.I am saying that through PR sites anyone can easily rank for keywords he wants.
I think the big deal Google has with PR now is it is being abused and scammed so it is becoming worthless. People started to use it as a gauge and value then it turned into a big scam with dropped domains and fake PR games. All most ALL PR links I see being sold around places like DP are dropped domains which means they are basically fake, the PR is for another site and people pick it up and sell links with it for fake sites they throw up under the PR for the dropped site. Let it die, it has just turn into a big scam. People should buy links for quality not just a stupid green tab.
yeah like meta tags and text keywords the same color as the background in the 90s. To many people pile on a scam then the scam ends, then a few people figure out a new one and people start hopping on until it has too many people again and it is over. over and over the same thing just different games.
What i believe is page rank might not be disappear, but i am surely thinking that google does not want to update the toolbar. instead they are hiding all PR information, but still they are updating their PR internally and not externally through minor updates. For normal users PR is nothing, PR is used only by webmasters and seo experts, and they do it only for spamming and manipulating serp's. So for me this is an good step for sure, and its " improvement by google in their algo" This is purely my assumption
Correct.. Google will continue to use PR in its algo, but may not make it visible to prevent webspam.. PR is one of the biggest reason for webspam.
Nah! I dont think its possible for google to close down such a major part of its core integrity uselessly!
This is just a guess but based on prior updates: google has the tendency to update PR on Sundays. If PR is not updated tonight then major PR updates are a history, they will keep doing minor updates and that's fall into the same boat: updating the PR is still alive, it's just conducted differently.