PageRank 已死，有事烧纸

sert发现，Google在为Webmaster Tools推出labs新功能的同时，爬虫统计中原有的PageRank部分也消失了。而Google没有对此事发表任何的官方声明，只有Google员工Susan Moskwa在Webmaster Help论坛中对此事进行了确认。

We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.

2007年，Google曾经就去掉Toolbar中的PageRank功能征求用户意见，但是很显然这个主意遭到了用户的拒绝。而这次Google聪明了许多，不声不响的从Webmaster Tools中拿掉了相关的部分，下一步会是Toolbar吗？联想到PagrRank也有几个月没有更新了，看起来Google真的要废掉PageRank了？

via sert