Why is it that Google is so paranoid about people mining their PageRank? I mean, this is freely available information. Just load up their toolbar and you’re free to check out which sites rank the highest.

So honestly, what difference does it make? As popular as they are, I can’t imagine that it would be a matter of resources or bandwidth. They have to have solved any of those problems by now, right?

Any ideas out there? And no, I haven’t Googled it yet, I’m looking for reader responses… (yeah, so sue me!)

BTW: Did you know that this blog ranks a 4/10 according to Google’s Firefox toolbar? How cool is that? Yahoo! only ranks 8!

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