So despite claims of ditching the little green pixel bar, Google has once again updated their Google ToolBar PageRank about an hour ago, at 8 p.m. on December 30, 2009.

Perhaps it is the best gift from Google, GetBrowser has gone from PR3 to PR4, which is really an amazing thing for me.

For reference, Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm (named after Larry Page, co-founder of Google), which Google uses to assign a numerical weighting to measure the authority, value or importance of a webpage. Nobody outside of Google knows the actual PageRank of a document.

Toolbar PageRank, on the hand, is the green pixel bar that displays on your toolbar and something Google says is “for entertainment purposes only.” Sure Toolbar PageRank may be suspect metric, but it’s all we’ve got to go on because Google’s not giving us a peak at real PageRank. Personally, I feel TBPR offers a decent way to evaluate the link health of a website. But that’s just me.

Either way, I’d be very curious to know if anybody else seen evidence of this latest PageRank update?

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