Where Has My PageRank Gone?
I've noticed recently that my SearchStatus Firefox extension is showing my Google PageRank as zero. Why this would suddenly drop from PR6 (which is what it has been for ages), I have no idea.
Several weeks ago I changed my site over from HTML to PHP, but I took good care to make sure that my .htaccess page was set up so that none of my visitors — human or robot — got lost.
And I can see that Google has indexed the PHP version of my pages.
The funny thing is that if I try to find out my PageRank using an online tool, some will show it as zero (or even minus one!) while some (most) show it as still being six.
What gives? Any ideas are much appreciated. Anyone else had similar issues?
Re: Report not displaying certain characters
So it seems that report is OK.
Could you post (copy and paste) output from your SQL*Plus session (part of it) which displays the result of the
SELECT name FROM persdata WHERE name LIKE '%/%';
It's just the fact that I can't imagine what might be wrong here ...
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The conclusion was tucked away in the report, published on Tuesday, by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which monitors Microsoft's compliance with the settlement.
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