Personally, I don't see any reason for it to exist.

The only people that seem to use it are ignorant webmasters hoping to gain a few "PR Links" or looking for a "page review" of some sorts. They seem to calculate their page's importance by Google's standards, not their visitors, or their own.

I agree that they should, but I'm not sold as to whether it will make any difference. Instead of having "PR(x) link for sale", idiots will just switch to "exchange links and increase PageRankering."

I think Google believes PR still gives them a marketing advantage.

I feel neutral about pr, so i don't care.

Do away with the **** public Pagerank, make it a behind the scenes webmasters don't know type deal. This will atleast help cut down on the **** Pagerank threads!

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

I agree that they should, but I'm not sold as to whether it will make any difference. Instead of having "PR(x) link for sale", idiots will just switch to "exchange links and increase PageRankering."

I wonder what they'd use to calculate "Link Worthiness" or whatever, then.

Maybe Yahoo or w3c or someone would come up with a "PR system" (Even though it'd most likely be just as bad, or probably worse).

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

I think Google believes PR still gives them a marketing advantage.

Hmmmm.... like what? Just webmasters using Google as a reference point?

I think it would actually help Google in the long run (because the people who use PR couldn't "search for links" and manipulate, in that respect, and Google would have an easier time calculating their algorithm).