Absurd PageRank allocation in Firefox

PageRank

Update: Ironically, this doesn’t show up on the Google toolbar for Firefox. Pretty odd, ain’t it?

Looks like Google is showering a whole lot of PageRank juice on Mozilla.org. Alone in the Add-ons section of the site, over 800,000 pages have a PageRank of 8, as if the PageRank on these pages are spoofed.

Here are the following pages which have a PageRank of 8
-All extension pages
-All user profiles
-All themes
-All pages in discussions about any extensions

This is not exclusive to Firefox as well; Pages about Thunderbird, Seamonkey and Sunbird also have the mysterious PageRank 8 allocation for almost all pages viewable.

Even W3 is not able to match up with the amount of PageRank 8 pages one can find on the site. Wordpress isn’t any closer either.

Tags: Firefox, Google, Pagerank

Posted in Internet

2 Comments

Posted on 12 March

Why is this absurd? Firefox has about 160 million users, its startpage alone gets about 55 million hits per day. Mozilla has some of the most popular sites on the web including more than a handful of pagerank 9 sites.

That being said, there are a lot of pr 6 and 7 pages at addons.mozilla.org — they’re not all pr 8.

Asa Dotzler says

March 12th, 2008

I guess so, but it’s kind of odd that higher ranked sites like W3.org appears to have a smaller share of such pages, while Firefox have a lot more.
Though, it’s pretty odd that everyone’s profile have the same pagerank, even authenticated pages have PageRank within them.
I’ve tried about 30 pages at random (especially innermost pages), and all of them appear to have the same PageRank. Though, they are possibly exclusive to certain types of pages. Other places like “support” and the development wiki have completely different PageRanks.

Even a new profile of mine made just a day ago have a PageRank of 8.

multippt says

March 13th, 2008