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1000 Forum Members

It’s been just under a year since we brought the forum back online. Today we achieved a milestone of 1000+ members. Thank you everyone for being a part of our online community and we look forward to having another 1000 forum members join this year.

Geek of the Week

Congratulations to this weeks geek Matt who pulls further into the lead. This weeks questions are:

1. Who owned Crystal Reports prior to Business Objects?
2. What large tech company started in 1986 in Surrey, BC?
3. What Burnaby, BC based tech company was bought by Kodak in 2005?
4. What Richmond, BC based tech company makes Realtor Software?
5. What popular gaming company is based out of BC?

Discussion: PageRank effect buying?

Wikipedia defines PageRank (PR) as…

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set.

If you use the Google Toolbar as I am sure most of you do you will see a little PageRank icon when you visit a site.

Does a sites PageRank effect your buying decision to buy?

We currently have a PR of 0 but I am going to predict that we will be at a PR of 5 when the next PR release is completed. It should be coming very soon if you are also waiting.

I think our current 0 PR has affected some peoples buying decision negatively, but but since I can’t survey non-customers, it’s difficult to know for sure.

I do know that a PR does affect my buying decision. How about you?

I will also make a few predictions on what the new PR will be for the following 3 top bloggers.

Problogger.net
Current PR 7
New PR 6

Shoemoney.com
Current PR 6
New PR 6

JohnChow.com
Current PR 4
New PR 6

Any predictions on your PR after the update?

Friday Funny

Another cartoon created by creative genius  Matthew Schmoll. 
If you have an idea for a future comic or would like to submit your own BlueFur cartoon let us know in a comment.

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