Comments on: Is Google's PageRank algorithm changing?

Some of the most popular blogs have seen their PageRank drop almost overnight.

[8ball629]

Some datacenters..

After checking 12 Google.com datacenters using seochat.com's "Future PageRank" tool I was able to see that 5/12 of them are still showing a PageRank of 7.

I didn't check the others but I'm sure they're the same.

I've seen this happen before and it usually bounces back to the previous PageRank but sometimes not.

[JohnT32]

PageRank in the Google Toolbar is 4-6 weeks behind

Google has publicly stated that the PageRank as shown in the Google Toolbar is 4-6 weeks behind what is baked into the algorithm.

According to Matt Cutts, the PR changes incrementally on a regular basis.

A better question that these Bloggers should have is has their traffic from Google search gone down with the PageRank? PageRank is just one of a huge number of factors that go into the search engine result when a query is searched upon.

[welcometowallyworld]

Is Our Children Learning PageRank?

Sorry for the Bushism - just wanted to get your attention. Yeah
the famous (Larry)PageRank - its gone a bit nutsoid lately hasn't
it? But then so has Google Search and how they rank the pages.
Case in point - Google "affiliate elite" and you'll see that the
inventor/owner of AffiliateElite.com, Brad Callen, has been
usurped for the top spot by AffiliateElite.org - owned by a Greek
graphic designer in Corinth - with a PageRank of Zip and 42
Yahoo links from 2 or 3 PR3/4/5 sites. AffiliateElite.com only
made it to the front page this week and is still only on #6. More
here - Who's on
First

Strange the way Google doesn't make a public statement on
something as important as this. These aren't rinky-dink sites
they are downgrading - some of them have lots of traffic and
credibility.