My view of the world

The ongoing battle with Google and their page rank continues.
I started as a page rank 0, then I showed a page rank 4. I just checked the Google data centers and found that on 12 of them I’m a pr 4 and on 8 of them I’m a pr 0. Another site I checked shows a pr2 on eight datacenters and a pr3 on twelve.
The pr of this blog makes no difference to me or anyone else, but the way Google has things buggered, it could make a major difference to any commercial website. They can’t even be consistant among their own datacenters.
I know that they are continually changing the algorithm, partly to try and outsmart the spammers and I’m quite certain it’s partly to make sure that the people who buy Google ad words rank higher than the rest of us. But you would think that they could keep some sort of equity among their own datacenters.
I don’t even pretend to understand what they’re doing, for all I know a page rank 5 in Nevada is a supposed to be page rank 2 in Maine.

I know that if you want a page rank 7 you pretty much have to buy links.
Google says some interesting things in their section on page rank, but on the whole they need to rewrite those pages every time they do the infamous Google Dance and as long as they continue to measure the value of links the way they do, to get a really good pr you have to lay out a bunch of cold, hard cash, some to Google and some to the sites who already have great page rank.

I guess what we all need to remember is that Google is not evil they are a commercial endeavor, they’re in it for the money and they are not there for our benefit.