Another Google PageRank update is underway and as usual some sites have seen their Google PageRank increase by a few points while that number has stayed constant or even dropped for some people.
Out of curiosity, I was trying to find web domains / web pages that have the perfect score – Google PageRank 10 – but surprisingly, this list is much smaller now and a large number of popular sites that were at PR10 few years ago are now off by 1 or 2 points.
For instance, apple.com, adobe.com, whitehouse.gov, www.w3.org, nasa.gov, intel.com, adobe reader, nsf.gov, mit.edu, real.com, apache.org, stanford.edu and energy.gov were all in the PageRank 10 category before but are now down by 1 point to PR 9.
Other popular sites that enjoy Google PageRank 9 are YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Scholar, Creative Commons, SourceForge.net, Java.com, Lycos, The New York Times and Wikipedia.
TechCrunch, Google Blog, Digg, Twitter, WordPress.com and BusinessWeek have a Google PageRank 8.
Now coming to sites that have the longest green bar (meaning Google Page Rank 10) I could spot only just two domains – www.google.com and www.usa.gov which is the official web portal of US Government. It was not so lonely at the top few years ago.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-page-rank-10-websites/4696/
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Reader Comments
It is really impossible to track Google’s mood, since august 27th, 2008 it is changing SERP too and many bigwigs are under strict ‘penalty’, Google is great, long live google…we are under Google’s economy, google rules the virtual world, DO NOT BE EVIL : )
Written by Piyush K on 09.29.08
I wonder why would a site like apple lose its PR?
Written by Salman on 09.29.08
Amit,
I’m just curious. Did you know about this update beforehand. I mean was this information publicly available? If yes, then can you point me to the link? Thanks.
Written by Deepak on 09.29.08
google.lt has pr7 :) not 10
Written by Lyricist on 09.29.08
Wikipedia had a page dedicated to PR10 sites in 2005 but it was deleted later for some strange reason. You might want to read about it here and link .
Written by Administrator on 09.29.08
Sadly, for no reason at all, my PR has dropped to zero. Which means, I couldn’t care less for PR anymore.
Written by Vaibhav on 09.29.08
I noticed this day before yesterday. my page rank fell from 4 to 3. I read someone said that Google is trying a new algo.
Written by Manan on 09.29.08
Is there tool to find such websites like all sites with PR 10 or do you have to check each websites one by one?
Written by Charles on 09.29.08
I have seen many websites drop today after the google page rank update. p.s I hear you Administrator!
Written by SEO Pro Websites on 09.29.08
No one is asking the obvious question here…
Why on earth does real.com still have a PR9??
Written by johnjacob on 09.29.08
Google keeps changing its algorithm time to time, so not only page rank but also the index of a certain page in google keeps fluctuating from time to time. But is there any universal technique which may be helpful to boost page rank, irrespective of any algorithm changes made by Google?
Written by Skydweller on 09.29.08
I have noticed that download.com also holds very high Pagerank 8, even though downloading software is one of the most activities done by internet users. But it still can’t reach Pagerank 9 or 10. Has it ever reached 9 or 10.
Also on sites like free articles ones. They still hold 5 or 6. I wonder why there are so many people out there using free articles and access these sites, but the sites can’t reach 8 like download.com
Sites like Facebook.com holds Pagerank 9. People love making friends, though. This should be the reason. Also the same as friendster.com which holds Pagerank 8.
Written by Yanto on 09.30.08
The examples given,have only fell down 1 point AS DISPLAYED – but in reality they may have just fell down a fraction of a percentage.
So a site at 9.5 would have displayed a 10, but once it becomes 9.4, it displays a 9.
It is possible that Google’s new PR algos have just decreased the sites a few fractions of one point
Written by PR AD on 10.01.08
Another site with Pagerank 10 is link .
Written by Affan Laghari on 10.05.08
Today twitter moved to PR 9 and FriendFeed to PR 8.
Written by Atul Arora on 12.31.08