Recently when i was going through the searchenginewatch.com forum, I came accross this thread, forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=3054, the guy who started this thread says he got a mail from google saying the toolbar pagerank display is for entertainment purpose only, this is what he posted,
“The PageRank that is displayed in the Google Toolbar is forentertainment purposes only. Due to repeated attempts by hackers toaccess this data, Google updates the PageRank data very infrequentlybecause is it not secure. On average, the PR that is displayed in theGoogle Toolbar is several months old. If the toolbar is showing a PR ofzero, this is because the user is visiting a new URL that hasn’t beenupdated in the last update. The PR that is displayed by the GoogleToolbar is not the same PR that is used to rank the webpage results sothere is no need to be concerned if your PR is displayed as zero. If asite is showing up in the search results, it doesn’t not have a real PRof zero, the Toolbar is just out of date”
In my opinion what he says is complete false statement, He just wants to spread some rumour and that is what he is doing here, I alert people not to listen to fake postings in forums, Google will never every say such a thing pubilically even if that is true, Red alert