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Does Google still use PageRank to rate your website?

Google PageRank toolbar vs internal use for ranking websites

"Ask David" short answer: yes. While you can’t see it anymore, PageRank is still a "core" part of how Google determines which websites are trustworthy and important.

Related: What Makes a Simple Website Feel Trustworthy? (From Real User Experience, Not Theory)

However, the PageRank of today is very different from the simple "0 to 10" score people obsessed over in the early 2000s.

How PageRank Works in 2026

In the early days, PageRank was the primary way Google ranked

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Google’s new Parent Company, Alphabet, opts for new tld: abc.xyz

g-icon This week Google announced that it will now be operating under a newly created parent company, named Alphabet.  Alphabet will be run by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Page as CEO and Brin as president.  And Google's new CEO will be Sundar Pichai. In this restructuring, Alphabet will consist of a variety of companies that have been previously all run by Google, and Google will focus on the core Internet products, i.e. Android, YouTube, Google search, Google... Continue reading
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