Ran Aroussi: Google Page Rank Widget

8 June 2005, 06:22 Google Page Rank Widget

Google PageRank Widget

I wrote my first Widget today! This cool little Widget for finds the Google Page Rank for any URL by calculating the checksum and requesting the PR from Google’s servers. Just type the URL you want to check and hit Enter!

LAST UPDATED: July 18, 2007

Go ahead, download it already (56Kb)...

UPDATE I: This is so cool. Google PageRank is now listed on Appel’s Dashboard Downloads.

UPDATE II: Updated the file to 1.0.2. This sub-version fixed the ‘Done’ button problem. It also has a smaller footprint. You should download again (remove it first from ~/Library/Widgets)...

“Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you’re using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you’re using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget’s icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

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Comments

Scot Jandly / Jun 8, 06:53 AM Oh, this is very, very nice. Use, and simple too, thanks! #

your name / Jun 9, 08:26 PM Look-ups take long enough that something needs to be displayed other than the previous pagerank (e.g., use a dash or the progress spinner until there is a result). Also, many errors are logged for the widget which give a reference to businessweek.com that I don’t understand. #

Ran Aroussi / Jun 9, 09:15 PM I have updated the file. I took your advice and it is now displaying dashes instead of previous PR while searching. #

AuGie / Jun 9, 09:46 PM Great Widget, I have post a news on my website :) #

your name / Jun 10, 03:22 AM Much nicer. One new complaint, though. The “done” button seems messed up, apparently because the longer version number pushes the text area (though invisible) over it and makes the left half unclickable. Otherwise, keep up the good work! #

Ifmy / Jun 10, 05:44 PM can’t done and search field haven’t atribut autosave and results :(
sorry for my english i’m french #

LobsterMan / Jun 12, 02:09 AM Cool Widget! Me wants more! #

Gerhard Graf-Martinez / Jun 13, 06:06 PM Great work !! #

Pete / Jun 22, 09:02 PM Great! Now I can get rid of VirtualPC (which I only used for PR lookups)! #

Samurai Japan / Jul 3, 02:17 PM I waited this widget!
it is very convinience. #

Tim Houghton / Jul 9, 10:02 PM Very slick. Thank you. #

Dr. B. Napoloni / Jul 12, 08:45 PM Where do I get more info on what the Google Page Rank number actually means? I like the idea but is higher better? or whats the range? #

RodV / Jul 14, 08:27 AM I agree with the previous post. What exactly do the results mean? I love the convenience and ease and the layout, but I just need to know how to interpret the results. #

Ran Aroussi / Jul 14, 02:36 PM Hey guys.

PageRank is sort of a ‘score’ a site gets from google, upon which it is included in Google’s search results.

You can read all about it here.

Cheers! #

Michael Morrison / Oct 1, 08:12 PM Well Done Lad! #

Disco / Oct 19, 02:46 AM This is excellent. Thank you! #

Ken / Nov 13, 10:51 PM

Great resource! Thanks!

Jan van Es / Jan 13, 03:09 AM

Excellent work, thank you very much!

One possible improvement: command-A (to select the entire link in the input box) doesn’t work.

Alpendurada / Jan 19, 11:29 PM

Thanks !

Dana Fox / Jan 31, 05:24 PM

Great tool. Can you give me more information on how to use it to the max.

Daniel / Feb 4, 10:00 PM

ola amigos

Peter Müller / Feb 13, 03:00 PM

They are called Apple, not Appel.

Nice widget though

Omni / Mar 21, 04:01 AM

Just FYI, your widget is NOT showing the updated page rank values, which Google re-calculated last month; I tested it for my site, which the Google toolbar shows as a 6, but your widget shows as a 5.

Here’s my site

christian / Mar 27, 10:04 PM

It’s true, it does not update if the site is in cache!

Attention!

online backgammon / Jun 6, 02:26 PM

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Business directory / Jun 19, 06:05 PM

great can i use it on my sites
Business Directory

MK / Jun 30, 11:28 PM

Coool, Thank you for your development for this nice widget.

By the way, do you want to find out if you are a workaholic?

I found one site recently
It is kind of personality , behavior test kind of thingy. It is sort of quiz.

Business Quiz

I am a workaholic according to the result. :(
See what you got.

Have fun

Google Success / Aug 23, 09:44 AM

Can we use it on a homepage? If yes, can we see it in action?

stef / Sep 20, 03:48 AM

Hello,

do you plan to open the source code to everyone like a GNU licence ?

Garrick Boyd / Mar 2, 05:27 AM

Was a great program, however it recently stopped working.

Sebastian Denef / Mar 2, 03:52 PM

Same problem here, I no longer get results …

Ran Aroussi / Mar 2, 04:28 PM

The problem is fixed now :) You can continue using the widget and enjoy it!

Rafa / Mar 11, 05:28 PM

Does it “refresh” automatically every X days or something? or Do I have to hit Enter every now and then to see how the PR is going?

Thanks!

Garrick Boyd / Mar 12, 01:48 PM

I’m getting errors again. I use it to check CharityCellphones,a website where you can donate cellphones to charity however it seems to be malfunctioning. It’s returning results that don’t fit in the green portal window. It looks like a very large “No” to the first power (superscripted 1). Anyone know how to fix it?

Kirill Morozov / Mar 31, 11:00 AM

Thank you for your widget.

Simon Wohler / May 5, 05:58 PM

What does E/A ming?

Sander van der Heide / May 11, 05:22 PM

I think you mean N/A and I also am wondering what it means.

Lauren G. / Jun 3, 09:24 PM

BTW, my page rank requests return a 5, even google.com which I know for sure to be a 10.

WDPX / Jun 5, 10:20 AM

I definately love this one. I use it regularly, but recently I have the problem that I get the same results for every single website I´m typing in. Seems, I need to kill some data or restart the whole dashboard some way.

Michael / Jun 5, 01:54 PM

Yes, same here. All page rank requests return the same number as the first one. In my case 3. This includes Google.com.
I presume there needs to be a cache clearing.

septi / Jun 5, 02:47 PM

Same problem here. First PR was 0, all others are also 0…

visualweb / Jun 6, 11:58 AM

ditto on the PR return, every search returns the same PRvalue as the initial search

Martin / Jun 6, 03:39 PM

Mine is 8. Constantly. :-)

niki / Jun 7, 02:28 PM

now is always on 9

quietleader / Jun 10, 10:20 AM

Still must have abug. all results are the same (rank = 4). Any plans to fix it?

me / Jun 13, 07:07 PM

Please fixy fixy! I get the same results for everything.

Disco / Jun 16, 02:45 PM

Ran,
Thank you for a very useful widget. I’ve been using this for some time now with great results. Recently however I noticed that it will give me the correct PR for the first site, but all subsequent sites entered default to the first site’s PR. I run the newest version of 10.4 and the widget so not sure what it could be and have even tried reinstalling the widget. Thanks.

Xandres / Jun 24, 02:58 PM

Works fine here – over 1 year. Useful and one of the best widget.
Flamenco

Glen Pawson / Jul 2, 12:00 PM

I use this widget all the time but have recently moved over to Intel – this may or may not be related but now every website comes up as a pagerank of 5

Jon Lucca / Jul 17, 10:15 PM

I’ve posted a fix for the widget on my site, theschmoejoes.com:

Please feel free to check out the rest, as it’s my band site, and it will boost my pagerank ;)

Ran Aroussi / Jul 18, 09:03 AM

Everything is fixed at the moment. Sorry for the delay!

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Raj / Aug 31, 01:31 PM

Downloaded it my one is Zero

Raj / Sep 11, 04:58 PM

Any ideas when is the next PR update ?

Kien / Sep 14, 06:46 AM

Can i add this widget in my website?

Diana / Sep 20, 09:23 PM

Its work smoothly in mine, great widget anyway. Thank you.

Mobile / Oct 3, 01:53 PM

Well done, Which software you used to develop this widget. I am also interested in developing a widget.

Ajllsass / Oct 7, 10:52 PM

Wyszukiwanie

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gry do pobrania / Nov 2, 03:04 PM

realy nice site, great articles, thanks for very interesting informations

robby tobby / Nov 16, 10:59 PM

Since Monday a few sites of mine get the wrong pagerank :(

For example: www.skydive-algarve.de

The widget shows me a 10 pr, of course its wrong, should be two.
My fault?

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It is good that someone writes articles which really matters something. Thank you for this article, it’s full of knowledge which is hard to find in tons of rubbish in our famous world wide web. Regards and good luck!

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Nice! thanks

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Cool, good work

Juan / Feb 7, 11:17 AM

I don’r get it. I type URLs and it says “warning”, that’s all ????

joe / Feb 7, 12:58 PM

yeah all I see is warning too.

madedd / Feb 8, 07:05 AM

Same Warning message here too (24” iMac Intel 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.1

Philippe Blanc / Feb 8, 02:15 PM

Doesn’t work… now (warning message)

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Nice… awsome…thanks a lot it’s so cool design

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nice! you know what would also be very useful? I think there should be an option to retrieve the url of the current displayed web page in safari, automatically. What’ya think?

Designer / Mar 14, 09:21 PM

Good work! Thanks!

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Cool Widget! Excellent. Thank you!

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Great Tool, works a treat, thanks from all at ECS Software Web Design

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