PR Server back online

[temi]

Google PageRank server is back online

[Duke]

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.

[Duke]

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.

[Duke]

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.

[Duke]

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).

[Duke]

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?