Library Blogs and Google PageRank
August 23rd, 2005Michael Lorenzen takes the blogs from Walt’s list and lists their Google Pagerank. He concludes:
“As you can see, nine blogs on Walt’s list had high Google PR scores of 7 or 8. By contrast, only one blog had a relatively low PR of 4. The largest amount of library blogs (34 of them) on Walt’s list had a PR of 6 with a smaller number (16) having a 5.”
“I am sure there are library blogs out there with lower PR scores but they didn’t have the reach to make Walt’s list.”
“The PR Google assigns a site is no indicator about how good a blog is or isn’t. However, it is interesting to see how Google perceives the authority of a blog to be by the amount of PR it assigns a particular library blog.”
I haven’t looked at my Google PR in 2 years or so as it doesn’t interest me that much. My eyes glaze over when I read countless stats (probably one of the reasons why I have yet to read Walt’s study in full). I point out this blog post as another indication of our obsession with statistics. I’m not saying that this is right or wrong, healthy or unhealthy. I’m just saying it exists. And if recent blog news events are any indication, this will only get more heightened and generate more buzz (and stats!)