Well what you know, the rumors are actually true. Last night, April 28, 2008, google has updated their measuring tool Pagerank (PR). As you know Balkhis was a PR 0 which means no green, but now Google has decided to give us a mere PR 3 for the first update. I have nothing to complain about because I am not a big fan of Pagerank. But alot of people are because I see numerous topics being created about this in Digitalpoint Google Section, so I have decided to make a list of sites that I visit daily for the most part and put down their pagerank update.

Title - Was > Now (This is the legend for the list below)

Balkhis - 0 > 3
Uzzz Productions - 0 > 3 (Some pages are PR 4)
Word Scrawl - 0 > 4
Shoemoney - 5 > 6
John Chow - 3 > 4
Problogger - 6 > 6
Aviva Directory - 0 > 4
Zorg-Directory - 4 > 5
Zac Johnson - 3 > 5
Brian Gardner - 7 > 8
Digital Point Forums - 6 > 7
TheWWWBlog - Unknown > 3

How do I know that this update is actually happening, and How can I get so many queries right now. Well I actually heard it from a friend of mine over the IM, and then started checking the Live Pagerank Websites. Most of them didn’t work, but here is the one that still works. I am not using any websites because I can see the updated datacenters on my toolbar.

Do you want to see live google pr update on your toolbar also? Follow the tutorial below: (Windows)

Open the Start Menu and click Run

Copy and Paste this into the Run box: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Open the file Hosts in there with a notepad

Copy and paste the line below at the end of the page

209.85.139.101 toolbarqueries.google.com

Above is the IP that I am using to see the updates, Claims are that this IP is also working:209.85.139.104.

Well I have been seeing alot of increases in Pagerank, so I hope it went well for all of you. Feel free to share how the update went for you in the comments.