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Why Google PR is quirky -- Google PR bug

Recently I have been informed that the PageRank provided by pagerankstatus , a Firefox extension is different from official Google Toolbar. Since, I have been slightly involved with the development of this extension, I have studied the reason behind it. Example Target site: http://benmccann.com/ Pagerankstatus's PR: 4 Official Google Toolbar's PR: 0 Reason: Google's bug Analysis Pagerankstatus What pagerankstatus requests: ...features=Rank:FVN... What Google returns: Rank_1:1: 4 Official Google Toolbar (IE) What Google Toolbar requests: ...features=Rank:... What Google returns: Rank_1:1: 0 Official Google Toolbar (FF) What Google Toolbar requests: ...features=Rank... What Google returns: Rank_1:1: 0 Google info XML file : ...info:... PR inside XML file: 4 ( This might be the right PR. Same as of pagerankstatus. ) Conclusion (Google bug) Official Google Toolbar has downgraded the category/directory option; that's why now not sending "FVN" as "FVN"

How to pronounce Opera

To my knowledge, most of the people here in India pronounce Opera as Oh-pe-raah. Some software professionals just started a new version of pronunciation: Oh-pey-raah. Because of the confusion, I decided to ask the Opera developers. To my surprise, they told me the right pronunciation of Opera is the first one in http://www.answers.com/opera That is, the right pronunciation is AH-per-ah Links News:1120107680.833631.5510@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com How to pronounce Opera? Opera pronunciation (first audio file) Opera Web Browser

Google implemented my suggested features!

It's quite ironic. But, once I had shown enormous interest in Google and did post my suggestions at news:google.public.support.general What I suggested Currency converter news:abc4d8b8.0312200204.63fed215@posting.google.com They did implement it. Great:) Sitemap -- a sitemap of a given site. news:abc4d8b8.0312192324.baecb0b@posting.google.com They rather implemented different feature named sitemap protocol (pinging spider) Skins news:abc4d8b8.0312192327.2c5772a9@posting.google.com They did implement it differently Search old sites news:abc4d8b8.0312192325.f857435@posting.google.com Not yet implemented Advanced interface for Google Groups news:abc4d8b8.0312080007.1d62345c@posting.google.com Unfortunately, they implemented GG2 (broken) :( But, sadly they didn't fix many bugs that I have reported. Here is one such bug list on broken GG2 ( news:1092037200444279@googlegroups.com )