John Bokma wrote:
> SEO Dave wrote:
>
>> On 7 Mar 2005 18:13:22 GMT, John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> 99 out of 100 times it's a toolbar bug.
>>>
>>> Nah, more like a glitch or network overload (not per se Google's).
>>> Sometimes your browser can't fetch a page from a site, if you reload
>>> it works. Browser bug? Nop.
>>
>> I didn't want to confuse the OP with the not so relevant information.
>
> So you scare the OP with bugs? LOL
>
>> The grey PR behaviour could be a toolbar bug
>
> Nop, doubt that. Then it would be reproduceable, and by now been
> fixed.
>
>> or a bad connection to
>> the server the toolbar receives it's data from.
>
> Yup, or a glitch more down the drain.
>
>> You could argue a failure to show the true PR due to a bad connection
>> is a bug since the toolbar could keep retrying to connect until it
>> receives the data
>
> No, since that is a bug. It would flood the network with requests, a
> DDOS.
>
>> (would probably be pushing the definition of a
>> software bug though :-))
>
> You would be creating one.

About 5% of my pages went grey around 27th Feb and stayed grey for 3 days,
which was as long as I observed them without changing anything at my end. I
also observed that a few specific pages on other sites had also gone grey.
It was the same pages every time I checked, so was it was a consistent lack
of PR data in the database my toolbar was working from?. I then deleted my
Google toolbar (and sent a why are you removing me? message "gives grey PR
for 5% of sites") and reloaded the toolbar and all was green again. My
guess is that the new tool bar is reading PR from a different PR server with
a full database.
Best regards, Eric.