Google PageRank Update For October

It appears that Google has done a tool bar PR update. The majority of sites are seeing drops in PageRank with several very large websites being hit. Rumors are flying that it is related to paid links and sites are getting penalized. Looks to me like its bloggers getting hit...again. People with short memories, we saw the same thing happen a few months ago to the bloggers. Here are 2 updates:

Search Engine Roundtable

Search Engine Journal

This is probably the best update:
Andy Beard

Highlights:
copyblogger.com PR 6 > PR4
searchengineguide.com PR7 > PR4
searchenginejournal.com PR7 > PR4
seoroundtable.com PR7 > PR4
forbes.com PR7 > PR5

Open Source Keyword Generation Tool

Here's an open source keyword tool that pulls keywords from Google Suggest, Yahoo Live Search, and Yahoo Related Search. You can even scrape Google Trends on an hourly basis.

Google Death Ray

Global Search Report

This Global Search Report looks at about 20 countries and their search habits. I wish they had covered France and Germany as well.

Domain Stock Exchange

Interesting idea, a stock exchange for domain names; a way to sell or buy percentages of ownership in big domains. In public beta.

List Of Links For Google PageRank Drop

This is an appendix to the post I did over the weekend about Google lowering the PageRank of sites selling text links. As a recap, Google has admitted that they are targeting sites which sell links and lowering their PR to discourage paid links.

Danny Sullivan covered the story first and SearchEngineLand has an updated list of stories and posts related to the issue.

Berkeley Search Engine Class Video

Berkeley has their own YouTube channel where they post free class lectures. I found this video series from a Search Engines class. These are from 2005 but looks like there is some good material, including one of the lecture given by Brin.