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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?

  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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