Google Giveth, Google Taketh Away
Great Googthulu blogosphere ongoing update PageRank
A number of sites have been hit yet again, including this one ...
Beard dusts off the Google rule book and speculates that the PageRank restructuring may to do with quixotic punishment of the "massive interlinking" that exists in the extensive blog networks being penalized.
Others think it's still all about paid links to other search sites. Or worse, per Valleywag:
Search me*. The only thing I know about the Google search algorithm is that I want to make it happy so it'll give me page views. When it comes to making that actually happen, I'm as clueless as a Stone Age witch doctor praying for rain. Do I pad my META Keywords or toss the intern into the nearest volcano?
Nevertheless, the conspiracy theories will continue to have a life of their own. To paraphrase the Joe Pesci character in JFK: "Who dropped your PageRank? Who killed your visitor stats? F*** man! It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The f***in' coders at Google don't even know! Don't you get it?"
*That's what a leading search engine company said! Rimshot!