PageRank is an algorithm for ranking web pages, based on the number of incoming links and their importance. The algorithm was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and is the main innovation that made Google the best search engine.
PageRank values are integers from 0 to 10, but very few sites have PageRank 10. Here is an incomplete list.
Software companies:
www.google.com
www.microsoft.com
www.yahoo.com (since April 2007)
www.adobe.com
www.macromedia.com (now redirects to adobe.com)
www.real.com
Government / governmental agencies:
www.whitehouse.gov
www.nasa.gov
www.energy.gov
www.nsf.gov
Sites with many backlinks:
www.w3.org
Educational institutes:
www.keio.ac.jp
www.lcs.mit.edu
www.ercim.org
Sites that dropped from PageRank 10 to PageRank 9 in 2007
www.apple.com
www.mozilla.org
www.firstgov.gov
www.statcounter.com
www.blogger.com
www.nytimes.com (New York Times dropped to PageRank 8)
Found another one? You can check the PageRank of a site and report it in the comments.
Last updated: May 12, 2007
Microsoft.com seems to be strangely absent from this list of 10's.
ReplyDeleteThe list has been updated. Thanks.
ReplyDeletedon't forget http://www.mozilla.org/ another software website.
ReplyDeleteI wish my website was in this list.
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ReplyDeleteIts must take alot of damn traffic to get ranked 10. Ive got tons of work to do :-S
ReplyDeleteI'm supposed that Apple isn't PR10...
ReplyDeleteI woner how much it would take to get a blog to PR 10 :D
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The PRs of many top websites seem to be changing on a weekly basis, somethings going on at Google with their mathematics.
ReplyDeleteOnly best and usuful sites have PR 10
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know if there is a complete list of pages with the highest pagerank?
ReplyDeleteCasi ninguna web de la lista tiene el pagerank 10. creo que deberias actualizarlo
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a few off them lost pagerank , can anybody tell me why ?
ReplyDeletei guess not all of them pr 10 now!
ReplyDeleteGoogle.co.uk is now only a page rank 9
ReplyDeleteBut yahoo.com is now on PR 9.
ReplyDeleteOMG why all the major site have been dropped a ranking on 2007 ?
ReplyDeleteGREAT POST
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