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PageRank Indicator For Linux And Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on from the show-me-the-numbers dept.

HackWire writes "Google's PageRank has only been available in your web-browser by installing the toolbar restricting use to Windows and Internet Explorer. Nick Stallman has created a module for Firefox to show PageRank from within the browser, within three easy steps Linux and Mac (even Windows) users can now see PageRank without being restricted to a OS or browser."

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  1. ...without being restricted to a ... browser? by headshrinker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a Firefox browser plugin, right? Surely that means you are restricted to a browser - Firefox? Or am I missing something obvious?

    1. Re:...without being restricted to a ... browser? by Feztaa · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, the plugin is restricted to firefox, but since pagerank is now available between this plugin AND the google toolbar, you get to choose between IE and firefox, so no, you are not restricted to a browser anymore.

  2. How does it work? Can it scale? by peterdaly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am guessing this has been done without google's permission. That being said, I wonder if he is doing a "native" call to google on his server to get the reading, or if it's some type of hack to a win32 toolbar.

    I heave already heard the reading is really a graphic that comes off of Nick's site, and not a direct call to Google from the toolbar. If it's a Win32/IE toolbar reader hack, it may have scalability problems...not to mention Nick's bandwith and server being a bottleneck.

    Anyone know if these things have been taken into account? I'm worried this is still a beta/hack level project that is about to get a slashdotting of it's own.

    -Pete

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  3. Re:Search Engine Optimization as a profession by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No.. SE spam is just the most visible part. Yes, it is mostly about incoming links, however google is now pretty smart to determine site/page "themes", so creating links from random places is not the most effective method (but popular nevertheless..), IMO SEO is about analyzis and creation of "legitimate" relevant incoming links (oh, and also keyword optimization, of course).