We just confirmed that google has been updating toolbar pagerank and backlinks, and it has been just over 3 months since the last update.

Since pagerank is one of the most important factors to determine the position of a site in the google search results, you may notice some change of your keywords performance as well.

We also found some interesting updates:

1. CNN.com has a pagerank of 10 (People show respect to the online news industry now )
2. Twitter.com has a pagerank of 9 (It deserves it, doesn’t it? )
3. Wordpress.com has a pagerank of 9 (Well, It takes a long time climbing up from pagerank 8 )
4. Wikipedia.org has a pagerank of 9 (Hmm.. Highest rank for human editing websites ever)
5. XiaoNei.com has a pagerank of 7 (It is a clone of Facebook )
6. Yammer.com has a pagerank of 6 (It went up from pagerank 2 )
7. W3Schools.com has a pagerank of 8 (Google punished this website for paid footer links, but it just went up again now )

We just noticed that another large PageRank and backlinks update taking place in the Google Toolbar. It has been just over 2 months since last PageRank update. We’ve found that many google competitors’ websites PageRank increased quit a lot, including: cuil.com, fireeagle.yahoo.net, delicious.com, maps.live.com and many others.

Google uses PageRank to identify the importance of web pages. Although there are more than a hundred parameters affecting google search results, PageRank is still one of the most critical factors.