PR is not useless, but at the same time its not a good indicator how nice a site... For many traffic is most important factor, so they find no relevance in PR
i think google updates it's pr algorithm before updating toolbar and it shows old pageranks after updating.
Just remember below things There is no connection of PR with Ranking and Traffic. If pr is increase that doesn't mean ranking and traffic also increase. since pr shows how much your website is strong and popular..
I like PR... google is innovative and I think their PageRank is even more effective than it was before... ..so why is google a 10/10 on PageRank? How are you supposed to rank yourself a 9/10? Wouldn't that imply that you're not working hard enough to meet the needs of your customers/clients? ^_^ 10/10 seems fair
I think G always is being s good Search engines for users . As far as pr is concerned pr measurement algo has been changed. few years back pr taking is a kid game for the seo . take 2 and 3 any kind of link and can get 4 page rank.but now google link relevency, link age and outgoing links depends for giving page rank to the websites. one more thing in my point of view is that content base link building is very good for rankings serp and pr as well. note: now a days pr is very importent thats why google updating pr algo. cheers
According to google, PR play a role (don't know how much) in ranking for sites. So that is why Google is working on PR.
PR is extremely important. But only Google knows the true PR of a website, the toolbar is old PR and is for users only, it's not involved in the true rankings and real PR.