Personal vs Technology

Good news for this site! Only two months after its first launched (26 Feb 2007) , I saw in my Mozilla Firefox’s Google Toolbar that my site’s PageRank is not blank anymore. I saw green bar! Yes, it is official that my site gets PR3

What is Google PageRank anyway? The toolbar said that “PageRank is Google’s measure of the importance of this page”. According to Wikipedia, PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank) and Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine.

How to check whether this is valid or not? You may use some pagerank checker tools, like iWebTool or RankAlert. You even can use these tools to predict the future of your site’s pagerank. More pagerank means more popular? Probably. These are the examples of some popular sites with their pagerank:

• Google Search Index and Yahoo Portal Index definitely are the most popular with PR10
• StatCounter, web tracker creator, used to get PR10 (now, it gets PR9)
• Amazon and eBay as popular e-commerce sites get PR9
• MSN Portal Index surprisely ‘only’ gets PR8
• Blogger superstar TechCrunch gets PR8, while GigaOm gets PR7

Well, how long will it take to obtain PR4? Only time will tell. For awhile, you can view fellow PR3 sites in here and here.