PR Server back online

[temi]

Google PageRank server is back online

So it was a server issue?

Where is the official response from Google, or, is there one?

[temi]

I don't know what the official response is, I just guessed that it was a server issue because a few days before it went offline completely it has been erratic.

Well it finally seems to be working for me again as well.

[OldWelshGuy]

Nothing posted on the official google blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ so who knows? I expect to see something there today or tomorrow though, as no way will they let this slide without mentioning it.

I find it funny that they aren't honest right up front and leave all of us to wonder in the first place.

[OldWelshGuy]

If they told everyone what was wrong they would get a whole lot less forum press coverage lol. Now they get 3 bites of the cherry.
1) PR is dead, or is it?
2) PR is back, why was it down
3) PR mystery revealed.

True enough, but doesn't it also serve to hurt their reputation as one of the premier search engines that has their sh1t3 together? I honestly can say that I'm starting to wonder about google where I have never given them a second thought before.

[temi]

I think we should not forget that Google is run by humans like you and I with the help of computers so we should make allowance for occasional human or machine error. Or even occasional confusion on policy. I remember a few years a go when Royal Mail was given some degree of autonomy with a view to privatisation in the long run, the management then spent Millions of pounds re-branding Royal Mail to Consignia , suprise suprise after a few months the management then changed their mind and re-branded back to Royal Mail (spending even more money to go back to where they were).

I guess I just don't expect a company of there size to make mistakes. I know it's unrealistic so I'll have to work on my POV.

I wonder if someone actually lost their job over this though?