He is sure good in sneaking behind me during my blog holiday. I took my full day off to be with my family and the moment I went online just now, after midnight, at 12:30am or 0030hours, I saw Sasha commented on my recent Treasure Every Second of your life post, saying that her blog Blablabla has been down ranked by Google. True enough her blog is now is now at Page Ranking 2/10 from PR4/10.

This is of course make me curious because I know her blog very well and she does not deserve to be downgrade like that. Then I realized, Oh yes, my Little Knowledge is now too at PR2/10. See, I knew this is coming, that is why I wrote my Gratitude to all my friends and supporters earlier at 10 October, 2007. Well, what do you know … it is exactly One(1) full month.

I have checked with many PR Checkers, but none report the real page ranking. I mean, all of them reported that my blog is Not available (N/A). Check this links. Google Page Rank Checker, and even to the Dig Page Rank with their over 700 datacenters. However, after searching hard, I finally found this site SEO Future Page Rank Checker to at least show me that my Little Knowledge Blog is indeed has Page Ranking of 2/10.

So to cut thing short, my Gratitude to all friends and supporters post is still valid up to this day. Please go back to that post for I am sincere when I wrote it and I am sincere as at now too. Funny, my Alexa is still reporting good in traffic. So, once again, thanks to all friends and supporters.

Would you? Page Ranking 5 site is a very high value domain nowadays. Especially after the downfall of so many “used-to-be PR5″ domains. To be honest, I would buy too. Why not? Now, before we go into details why should or should not, I want to explain a bit on the Page Ranking term. Well, if you are not as techy as most of the people out there, do not worry, we are in the same boat. Let me explain it to you in my very simple day-to-day English.

PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.” Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages’ relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don’t match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page’s content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it’s a good match for your query.

Now, that is not from me obviously. That is from Google Technology page. Who else to explain better than the creator of Page ranking itself. Ha-ha.

Well for me, I know this one thing. The more higher related ranking sites linking to your site, the higher your page, site, will be. I probably wrong but my blog live on this belief.

Anyway, do not talk about my blog. Let us talk about the real deal here. I just found out Heritage-tech.net owner, Azmeen has the thought of selling his HTNet, would you buy it? I believe if you are into techy thing, you should. The blog has tonnes of useful information. Now, the main question is how much is it. How are you going to put value to HTNet without asking the owner himself how much he already spent his valuable time and sweat on it. Not to mention, the cost of running it – paying the domain name and hosting. I am sure it is a lot. Let me quote from his about page:

I’ve been maintaining HTNet for God knows how long

To those who thinks $5,000 is enough to buy his HTNet, well think again. I have this interesting page in my bookmark, that give an estimation value of site based on the Technorati. I take the honor of checking http://www.heritage-tech.net/ and guess what how much the blog worth? $42,905.04. Yes it is at USD$42,905.04. Wow, that is pretty damn nice number. See, HTNET IS NO CHEAP PR5 BLOG AND IT VISIBLE IN ITS VALUABLE CONTENT.

On the other hand, you can always ask Azmeen directly if he really selling it. You never know you may get a discount. Well, even he gives you 50% discount, it is still a lot at around USD$21,452. Yaikkksss. That is a lot man.

Oh ya, to check the value of your blog, check Dane Carlson’s page here.

I actually noticed [tag]Google giving out Page Ranking[/tag] on Saturday morning, 28th April 2007 but I ignored it. Why? Because of the damn Streamyx, Suck Big Time and it only managed to display my blog halfway through. So, when I noticed that it gave my [tag]PapaJoneh.com PR4/10[/tag], I knew this was not correct. Somewhere along the connection, Streamyx gone haywired, criss crossing my IP and reporting that is was all ok. When IT WAS NOT. But you know what, I took screen shot of my halfway-displayed blog. Just in case it was wrong and Papa will never get the PR4 back again. Pathetic of me. kesiankan LOL.
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Ever wonder where have you been in the last few days? I mean what have been doing in the internet? What did you clicked? What have you been searching for? Or better, what others search for before landing on your site? Well, check this ….

[tag]Google Web History[/tag] has this covered for you. You will be able to:

• View and manage your web activity.
  You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you’ve visited, including [tag]Google searches[/tag], web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.
• Get the search results most relevant to you.
  Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you’ve searched for on Google and which sites you’ve visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.
• Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
  Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other [tag]interesting trends on your web activity[/tag].

It is going to be interesting data for you. Go ahead Enable the Web History. I already did. Wanna know the data produced? Please visit [tag]Gobala Krishnan Blog[/tag]. The post has a very interesting web history output.

I was browsing here and there and do [tag]Google[/tag] Search. I end up at this interesting website. TouchGraph. the [tag]Visual Browser[/tag] for Google ever since 2001.

… millions of people have used TouchGraph’s tools to discover the relationships contained in Google, Amazon, Wikis, and other popular information sources. Our commercial applications include solutions for companies in management consulting, social networking, and mass media.

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