Google's 2007 Q4 PageRank (PR) Update - 10/13/07

This is strange, just a few weeks ago my PR4 site dropped to PR3, today it dropped to PR2.
What is going on?
Dropped twice within a few weeks

 

double-whammy, ouch...

I'm hoping that there's an upside to these updates...

 

I have no clue what is happening, but it seems; more I work, less I get.


I better forget on PR.

 

PR7 directory and people don't know about it?? Surprising :d

Thats really strange.

 

Well I would think if you bought any links for your site and someone reported those links as purchased, google is not going to count those links for you anymore?

Only the free ones will be counted

 

Most of sex-related web sites gained PR, you must be the smart one

 

^^ Maybe because Google being sexy

 

http://www.topdirectories.com dropped from pr5 to pr3
and iwebtool also dropped pr

 

www.toptut.com dropped this morning from PR4 to PR3. Damn, thanks Google :/

 

Did you sell links? Or, might be unknown reason for dropping?

 

www.apple.com 10 -> 9
www.nytimes.com 10 -> 8
www.dmoz.org 9 -> 8
www.msn.com 9 -> 8
www.firefox.com 9 -> 7
www.phpbb.com 9 -> 6
www.statcounter.com 9 -> 6

www.yahoo.com 9 -> 10 - anyone can confirm?..

 

Being there has been several PR updates in the last 10 days, dont write off the idea that Google may have some bug they keep trying to work out. This may very well not be the end, especially with so many high end authority sites taking big hits.

 

Mine also remained where they were, however i think those sites coming from 7 to 4 are crying for it

 

I have a PR 5 that did the exact same thing, 5, 4, and now 3!! Mine is a directory, what type of site is yours!!

Weird things happening!!!

I smell a Google Revolution!!!

 

Math is not my area, but in-case they don't do "-1", or change algorithm
in some time PR will increase to PR6,7,8,9 for most pages on the web.

Can anyone confirm this theory?

 

Well usually in my experience the pages that gain went to 0 first for a brief few and then went up but I have never seen a step down PR EVER!!

Of course every update has been a bit different so I am not surprised that this one is different as well but the TARGET seems to be a Stinky one on Googs part as these sites that they are taking down are legitimate advertising sources for people!!

 

If you have a look at these two web sites : alistapart.com and cssplay.co.uk ,
the first one is having the same PR because they never list any links , recommended list or such while cssplay went down to 5 from 8 because the web site is full of links -most of them are not relevant

The question is whether Google is checking those established web sites manually! They must be

 

I agree, google is shooting themselves in the feet and they wont be able to walk for long. MSN will take over soon!

 

could be...
this is effecting so many sites it's amazing they're disclosing so little...

 

I see this happen twice for me too, this is really sick from google.
It happened to Amits directory as well gii.in now PR4