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Google carried out a PageRank update during the latter part of this week, revising scores for what is judged to be popular or unpopular web content. No change for nature.com which remains at 9/10 although many of the other pages on that website have gone back to eight from zero (thanks to some revisions on outbound linking). Interestingly this blog seems to have gone from a PageRank two (calculated in April when there was no content here at all) to a PageRank zero. Presumably this means that Google thinks this blog is of less use than when there was just an htaccess log-in box preventing the Googlebot from indexing anything… Google’s algorithm as mysterious as ever! What I have found whilst looking into this issue is the NEW WordTranslator function built into the latest version of the Google Toolbar.

As you browse a web page, if you want to know what a particular word would be in a foreign language you just mouseover the keyword and the toolbar’s WordTranslator will display a tag giving you the translated word. This is quite handy if you’re trying to learn a new language - I immediately set mine to show me words in Italian (’Suzie_Q’ is Italian and we will be off there again later this year for a family wedding). I’m hoping this tool is better than Altavista’s Babelfish which I personally find to be about as accurate as a drunk builder using a urinal on a Friday night - it’s in the right area but needs some cleaning up.

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