This year, lot of efforts seems to have been put on connecting websites with Google Plus profiles and no updates to the Google PageRank toolbar in months.<p>Does this mean PR won't be updated any longer and maybe something new like Author Rank is introduced?
I think Google is steering away from algorithmic determination of page rank due to spammers gaming the system with backlinks strategies.<p>Google started to add too many manual overrides to make this whole PR thing essentially worthless.