Google Jack for Page Rank
November 26th, 2006 by Shiva
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False or spoofed PageRank
While the PR shown in the Toolbar is considered to be accurate (at the time of publication by Google) for most sites, it must be noted that this value is also easily manipulated. A current flaw is that any low PageRank page that is redirected, via a 302 server header or a “Refresh” meta tag, to a high PR page causes the lower PR page to acquire the PR of the destination page. In theory a new, PR0 page with no incoming links can be redirected to the Google home page - which is a PR 10 - and by the next PageRank update the PR of the new page will be upgraded to a PR10. This is called spoofing and is a known failing or bug in the system. Any page’s PR can be spoofed to a higher or lower number of the webmaster’s choice and only Google has access to the real PR of the page. Spoofing is generally detected by running a Google search for a URL with questionable PR, as the results will display the URL of an entirely different site (the one redirected to) in its results.
Google’s home page is often considered to be automatically rated a 10/10 by the Google Toolbar’s PageRank feature, but its PageRank has at times shown a surprising result of only 8/10.
It is too tempting to try it though for pagerank 0, but am not going to do that.
Hehe…nice post