This day in search marketing history: March 8 – Search Engine Land

Goodbye, Google Toolbar PageRank

In 2016, Google confirmed that it would be removing Toolbar PageRank.

Google would still continue using PageRank data internally within the ranking algorithm. Only the external PageRank values shown in the Toolbar would soon go away completely.

The end of Toolbar PageRank was inevitable by this point. Google hadn’t updated PageRank scores since 2013 and PageRank has been slowly vanishing from their toolbars and browsers.

Toolbar PageRank originally become a visible, public metric when Google released its first version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer in 2000.

Dig deeper in RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web.

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