PageRank, what is it ? That is besides Larry Page Co-Founder of Google's last name. In laymans terms it is Voter Popularity of sorts. You see Google gives your website a score, a score that determines to some extent how important your website is compared to other websites. In Googles eyes if an important website (this is to say a website with an established PageRank) has a link to your site (this is considered pointing to your site) it counts as a vote. Now there are alot of different values to these votes, if the site is similar to yours it may count for more points, if it has a higher PageRank than yours it may also count for more points. Only Google knows exactly what a particular vote is worth. This is measured with what is known as the Google PR Algorithm. This was created at Stanford University (yes they have the patent, but Google has exclusive rights) and the University received approximately 1.8 million Google Shares (in 2005 that was worth an amazing 340 Million Dollars). To sum things up, the Google Toolbar displays a Rank of 0 to 10. 10 obviously being at the higher end of the scale and therefore ZERO (sometimes an N/A when you have not yet been ranked by Google) at the lower end.-M.Carangi

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Is it possible to Predict Pagerank? Well, before I answer that, I do hope everyone read the above (What is Pagerank?). Remember Google paid up to 340 million Dollars for this Algorithm. I might add an Algorithm that was patented by Stanford and exclusive to Google. So unless Google makes a PR Prediction Tool, I do not believe it is possible to make an accurate Pagerank Prediction. I have stated recently that I do believe that there are several hypothesis that can make somewhat similar calculations. Those calculations are more than likely based on what information Google has released publically. So, if you are willing to settle for some minor credibility and alot of entertainment value, then use away. -M. Carangi