Every site that I've been visiting is showing up gray in toolbar and pagerank.net is reported to be giving really odd results. So, Has google discarded its pagerank? That's what most people are talking about at various forums. However, Brett Tabke, the founder of WebmasterWorld, has said that it is just a temporary glitch (This thread).

I, not being such a PageRank / SEO Freak, would really take a sigh of relief if that happens. Why? Well, Neil had written a perfect rant about it ( read here ), so I would not be repeating it again.

But I don't think that this PR thing is going anytime soon. If it will not remai as PR then it would be given another name.

The whole concept of PR was a marketing gimmick for Google and it worked very well for them. Infact, it is just because of PR that Google Toolbar is one of the most used toolbars in the world.

So, Will PR remain PR or will it surface as something else? Or, is it the end of the Gimmick that Google played? Well, we can only wait and see.

Just an update folks, PR seems to be back.