What a busy weekend! As well as the current Bourbon update being carried out by Google there also seems to be something happening with PageRank. Currently, using the Google Toolbar Internet Explorer to display PageRank values for webpages just seems to be a greyed out PR indicator bar even for the Google websites themselves.
Whilst this may be a technical hitch, it got me thinking about what the world would be like without PageRank. Personally, I think it would improve the way people use the web. Instead of placing more or less value on a webpage because of it’s PageRank value, people would be forced to start looking at more sensible measures e.g. how useful is the content, what kind of traffic does it receive. After all, Google’s PageRank technology is more of a kudosodometer than anything really useful. I mean, what more is it than a status symbol of sorts?