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It seems my post about PageRank Export was premature. Although some sites have changed PR, it seems that a full update is not going to happen in another few weeks at least. I wonder what a “full update” means though… Anyway, quote from Matt Cutts (a Google employee):
Ezhil, I don’t expect a full PageRank update for at least a few more weeks, and possibly longer. (Source)
Since Matt’s comment a few weeks ago was that it would take at least two weeks, this could mean anything. It could mean a month, a year, or it could mean that they are ditching PageRank for good, as some speculate.
However, his words were “full PageRank update”, which makes me think that they might continue adjustments for some sites. Maybe they have a profound change to the algorithm and want to test it out on some sites first, who knows. Matt might, but I’m quite sure he won’t tell.
It seems highly likely that new sites, such as mine, will have to wait at least another month for PR. Oh, well. I have better things to do than to fanatically wait for the update. I have a couple of new sites under development, and the existing ones need new content. I can wait.
by Sutocu | October 2, 2007 
The last time we got hit was back on Aug 8, and I’ve done a complete overhaul and have been itching for the next update….
Why can’t they just update?
But a nice article
Thanks for the comments. I’d also like to have a PageRank score for monetizing purposes, but I can live without. I wish advertisers would stop caring about PR and focus on more important issues.
How do we know when updates are pending? I read another blog today that was saying that Google wants to be more user based so they are doing away with pr…I wonder.
They just have to click on the UPDATE button and that’s it, why wait longer ? Its not that have to reindex the whole web with it. lol
My friend told me that his blog’s PR has been updated whereas mine is still the same.
Could they give specific date and not, few more weeks, and possibly longer. *sigh*
There seems to be a lot of weird things going on with google recently like adwords dissapearing on results pages and weird results. I hope that I get a pagerank increase
To answer the first question, we have nearly no way of knowing when a PR update is going to happen. Sometimes different data centers show different PR figures for different sites just before an update/export, but that’s about it.
We can’t know, if it’s as simple as pushing a button. Google has hundreds of data centers, and they have indexed billions of pages. Updating the PageRank for all of these, though possibly simple to initiate, takes time and resources. They don’t have much to gain by doing it frequently, so why would they.
Bambi, could you give the URL to your friend’s blog, if you stop by here later. I’m interested in whether it was a PR drop, or increase.
Thanks for commenting
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