Google Pagerank Updates
No more Google Pagerank updates? I think that Google is now throwing away pagerank – or at least has something in the works to replace it.
Looking at the pagerank updates the last few years, there were 2 in 2007, 5 in 2008, 4 in 2009, but only one in all of 2010 to date (in April). We’ve been waiting patiently for 8 months now, and some thought the PR update would occur in July, then Sept, or Oct, and here we are in December with still nothing. Some believe it will happen on New Years Eve, as it did in 2009.
Personally – I think we might have seen the end of Google Pagerank updates as we know them. Many SEO people will tell you that the PR numbers don’t really mean anything anyway. You can get a first page ranking in Google without them. You can get good AdWords quality scores without them. Pagerank now seems like just an antiquated online measuring system to tell you what you already know.
Google changed it’s index dramatically this year – first with the “caffeine” algorithm that made updates faster then ever before. Then they turned on google “instant” – where results change before your very eyes with each stroke of the keyboard. If the index can change in under an hour, and users can see 30 different front page search results as they type – pagerank just seems that much more antiquated or useless, doesn’t it? The fact that Google has put pagerank updates on the backburner for nearly all of 2010 kind of underlines that fact.
I’ll be surprised if Google updates pagerank on Dec 31st, 2010 – because I think the next time we hear about pagerank (from Google) will be that it’s going away, or being replaced by something else.
What do you think?
Well, I think Google is planning to replace PR with something else. That’s why there has been no PR updates in the past 8 month.
Hey man… good to see you post! There have been several toolbar PR updates in 2010. I think October itself even had 2 updates to toolar PR.
I do agree that its antiquated and old crap though… after all, having high PR and actually making money with your visitors are two completely separate things, unless you sell links!
I don’t know, there have been minor things – but only 1 official PR update all year. Even if you do sell links – you could have a PR5 site and just not know it yet since Google is keeping quiet. I know major top 1,000 sites that have changed structure and not had PR updates since April – it’s really weird!
JT, That is very true about Page Ranks not meaning a whole lot. I’m number one on Google SERPs with key words for my niche and my page rank is 2. I even beat out the manufacturer of the type of products I make for the past 2 years.
I’m sure they’ll continue to use their algorithms, but maybe they won’t publish PR anymore? They don’t need to.
Looks like minor “updates” are the order of the day from now on. You can have a million high quality backlinks and never get past PR0. Eventually, people may forget the meaningless number google puts in the toolbar, but it will probably be a long, long time in coming.
Google isn’t the owner of Page Rank alghoritm, and from what I know Google has rights to use it till 2011, don’t know when exactly, but read about it somewhere. So we can be almost sure, that next year the PR alghoritm will go away.
Greets, Materace
really? This is possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Google developed the PR algorithm in-house with their own programmers, why wouldn’t they own it? how stupid is that.
I’d really be shocked if pagerank was around in the next few years. It seems like a metric that doesn’t really matter as much anymore and I see sites in tight niches with lower pageranks beating the higher competition. Wonder if they’ll still use some sort of ranking system though to replace it or drop it all together.
Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank, especially the part:
“However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for $336 million.”
Dumb?
Yes, very dumb.
1. the university received $336 million for the patent
2. google has exclusive rights
3. it says NOTHING of the rights expiring
4. the algorithm is NOT the same now as it was when google licensed it from Stanford
5. google uses (today) more than 200 ranking signals to determine search engine results
I don’t think you can find a shred of evidence online the the pagerank algorithm is going to expire.
Yes,I agree that anybody not evidence online the pagerank algorithm is going to expire.