Tech-Pro.net Toolbar FAQ

Q: I like the extra search functionality of your toolbar, but I can't live without the Page Rank indicator in the Google toolbar. Having both toolbars is a bit unnecessary. Could you add a Page Rank indicator to your toolbar?

A: Technically we could, and we did consider it. We did not include a Page Rank indicator for legal reasons. Page Rank is proprietory information belonging to Google and it is not licensable for use by other software developers. Although the method that the Google toolbar uses to find out the page rank is known, and various browser add-ins and software tools make use of it, they do not have the permission of Google to do so. It is quite likely that Google would take action against a developer that used this knowledge to create a toolbar in direct competition to Google's own.

If you use Firefox, then you can install a Firefox extension that shows the Page Rank in the browser status bar. You could use the official Live Page Rank add-on, but the version 0.9.5 on this page appears to have a bug that does not clear the last page rank displayed if you visit a page for which the page rank value is not available. Because of this we prefer the version 0.9.7 on this website, which works perfectly. There is a newer version of this extension here, but it would not install in Firefox 1.5 when we tried it.

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