Earlier today, our fake PageRank checker started showing a gray PageRank bar (indicative of PageRank N/A or unknown) for all sites that we checked. We thought there was something wrong with our fake PageRank checker, until we started receiving word from some of our users that none of the fake PageRank checkers anywhere is working. All websites are currently PR N/A or unknown, including google.com itself.
We suspect that is a prelude to a PageRank update. If it is, then the correct PageRank of all websites should start showing up in a few hours.
Others are saying that this is Google’s way of giving tribute to Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, who passed away earlier today. We think this is ridiculous. Of all the things that Google could do, why suspend PageRank for Steve Jobs? Only webmasters and Internet marketers know and care about PageRank. Google already has a link on its homepage to the Apple website — this is a tribute. Not showing PageRank is not.
We don’t know what’s going on yet, but we’ll post an update when we know more.
In the meantime, let’s remember Steve Jobs. We’ll miss him.
Nice update about the latest news of Google Pagerank.
RIP steve jobs!II hope google will show all the PR’s !
Google currently not displaying PageRank globally! Rumors about discontinuing PageRank after their Patent expires in 2011
All sites do not show PR, we will wait for update
No, Pagerank is not dead, it’s just changed URL (in french : Non le Pagerank n’est pas mort, c’est juste qu’il a changé un peu de syntaxe)