PR gone Ka-put

Today I’ve heard quite a few people and have noticed myself that PR has dropped for the majority of websites. In case you don’t know, Google has about 40+ data centre’s just for PR really and you don’t receive an average of all the DC’s no, you get the results of one of them and pretty much everyone is different.

Usually you can expect to see (for example) PR 5 on the majority of the DC’s and PR4 on others or even 0. So whenever you use the Google toolbar, your assigned a DC for the session, you sometimes can have this DC all week, sometimes every time your browser refreshes, Google like to keep you on your toes. The main way to check what PR DC your hitting (this has worked every time for me, if you know a better way, tell me! ;)) is to do a search with the Google toolbar (anything, as long as it’s a search and not a operator command) and mouse over the cached link by a search result, check the location of the link by looking at the bottom left of your browser for an IP and hey presto you have the IP. Then you can compare it to PR checker tools. and as a final note PR is seriously out of date, the toolbar only gets updated once a quarter and even that information is 3 months old and I find PR pretty pointless the way Google displays it, more of a marketing tool to make you install the toolbar than helpful.
Anyway lesson over and back on topic

As you can see on DaveN’s Blog, you can see that Google’s PR has gone seriously screwy and the majority of the results are 0 (this blog has PR 0 as it’s new so no point checking mine :p). It is about due a PR update but I’m disappointed with the results so far (where’s my PR 10! :))