Re:fp Google PageRank is defective (Score 1)

Google dropped our Pagerank too on March 8 here at Floridata.com. We're a plant encyclopedia, online for 10 years, don't do SEO - just create excellent, extensive reference content. Google dropped our rank last Fall too but corrected it after I pointed out anomolies with the PageRank Data. I'll show it to you - more than a year ago our IP was 216.203.152.232 (now unassigned, owned by XO Corp.) - enter site:216.203.152.232 into the google search box and you will see 997 entries for Floridata.com pages. All with broken links. Google Support suggested they be removed but not until they generate "true 404" errors (which they're not doing now because there is no WEb server at that address). here's the search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A216.20 3.152.232&btnG=Google+Search So all other arguments aside, PageRAnk contains corrupted data records that are likely to be one of the causes that our referral dropped 70% overnight. Now watch Pagerank in action - when we search on the common name for a type of oak tree, the first link that it brings up is one of the corrupted links in your database: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=floridata +swamp+chestnut+oak&btnG=Search I'm working on a series of demonstrations that illustrate what a disgraceful job PageRank is doing finding relavant content for this kind of data. In side-by-side comparisons with the other engines - the search term "swamp chestnut oak" brings up links to Floridata's plant profile for that tree within the first 3 pages of results on each of the other search engines. On Google there's no sign of our profile within the first 12 pages (just look at the rubbish that PageRank results puts ahead of us). it's defective (if for no other reason that your including broken links in results - and NO THEY DON'T GO AWAY)? I'm amazed at home many uninformed individuals are so quick to defend a big impersonal corporation like Google and be totally unsympathetic (even vicious) at small publishers who are just trying to make a living. I've had jackasses on these boards accuse me of all sorts of deviances - people who know nothing aobut me or the situation - but they sure do seem to be sweet on Google... All I do is write about plants and take pictures of plants and Google is destroying me. BTW this would NOT be a problem if Google didn't have 80% of the search market (at least coming into my site)