Page rank and Toolbar Page rank?

[Standford]

What's the difference between PageRank and Toolbar PageRank?

[Peter Nikolow]

Google maintains an internal database of PageRank values that is continuously updated as they crawl the web. If you want to call something "real PageRank", it would have to be this database. Periodically (typically every three months), Google exports this data to another database that the Toolbar uses to display PageRank values. This process can take a day or so to propagate to the various datacenters around the world. This is the only publically-available PageRank data, and every independent PageRank tool relies on this same data. The data is reasonably up-to-date at the time of the update, which is demonstrated by the fact that (with rare exceptions) new websites receive a PageRank score on the first update following their creation - even if it's shown as "0".

[Aiden]

There is no difference in between them. Basically Google toolbar is a facility provide by Google search engine which have the following options available for webmasters to have check out the website page rank, similar pages and back ward links.

[Venugopal]

actually there is no difference between pagerank and pagerank toolbar.

actually you can easily check the pagerank of any website with pagerank toolbar

[Jhon]

PageRank, assuming you are talking about Google PageRank, is determined by Google based on a number of factors which is a closely guarded secret. The pursuit and worship of PageRank has spawned an entire industry in cyber space. I suppose Larry Page should be pleased. That's very close to worshipping him since it's his name that gave birth to PageRank.

Toolbar PageRank, assuming you are talking about Alexa Toolbar PageRank, calculates your site's ranking relative to all the other sites which have installed the Alexa Toolbar. So this Alexa ranking is rather incomplete since not every site has the Alexa Toolbar. Being incomplete naturally makes it also inaccurate.

[Bryan]

Yes it has an important information of how well your site is indexed in the crawler engines