It has been June 22nd when GOOGLE had an overall PR update. The previous record was about 50-60 days between two updates – now it’s aproaching 90!

Some sites are reporting sporadic PR changes – for some pages – but mostly drops because of index removal I guess

Are the days of the overall update dead? Are they further trying to confound Webmaster tools by eliminating update comparisons?

My recommendation – don’t get confused to much about that.

( did you dream about PR updates and what Google is trying to do about PR? Well – I did – and several fellow webmasters as well… )

Another idea is to expect that PR representation will change so that it will better represent Google's "opinion" of a web page. At the moment toolbar PR is some kind of logarithmical representation of the Real PageRank that Google's algorithms work with. It's a very basic and limited way of Representation of their "opinion" of the value of a page. A better way to display their internal data about theming, relations, relevance, authority will sure better reinforce their authority on search and put the competition far behind them again…

oh – and by the way:

A new site launched 2 weeks ago already has 7000+ pages in Google – achieved with deeplinks from another great site … no PR, but traffic… – well isn't that what a webmaster needs?

Lesson learned: PR isn’t everything for great results… the new site already has got some page one results…