The next PR update will begin on February 27th. I know what you're saying... "Spidey, why do you think the next PageRank update will be on February 27th?" Well, the answer is... I can feel my Spidey senses tingling.
You can think pagerank is the stupidest thing, but the people that buy banners and links don't. Chances are, everyone here would pay $100 bucks for a link on a site that got ten visitors a day, but had a legit PR 10, but they wouldn't do so on a PR 1 site that got 10,000 visitors a day
Most of them don't give back any results, and the ones that do go crazy.. the results change weekly... Take iwebtool's pagerank prediction tool for example... 2 weeks ago i put my website and it said my predicted pagerank was 1 - The url I used was subdomain(dot)mydomain(dot)com.. Today, it says I have less that 100 backlinks (which is a joke) so it can't predict my future pagerank... However, when I put in the url: subdomain(comma)mydomain(dot)com it says I have 505 backlinks and a predicted pagerank of 5... Go figure...
I do not trust the use of PR prediction tools available online. Like what edcpartners has mentioned, iwebtool is a typical example of how it fails to work most of the time.
$100? You could charge more than $1000 for a PR10 website.. Personally, I hope its soon and that I get as high as possible (PR) as this leaves a first big impression on new visitors. Before my PR3 (sweethacks.com) I had 100-200 visitors, now I have over 1000! - PR definitely played a big role.
I doubt it, this is thier best way to justify collecting peoples browsing data. I don't think they can do that wihtout telling you they will when you enable PR on the toolbar.
If you have domain pr over 4 want to selling lemme know.. I will pay double from market price.. Lol I think its late march..