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Nov 07 2007 12:00am EDT

PageRank: WaPo Up, Forbes Down, Portfolio beats WSJ

Remember the Great PageRank Massacre, when the Washington Post saw its Google PageRank drop from 7 to 5 overnight? Well, the good news is that WaPo is back, and stronger than ever – it now has a PageRank of 8! Weirdly, however, Slate, which is owned by the Washington Post, still languishes with a PageRank of 5. And Forbes, which got demoted to 5 during the Massacre, has now fallen even further, to a truly dismal 4. Meanwhile, I'm glad to see that Portfolio has improved from 7 to 8 (wsj.com went the other way), while nytimes.com has been bumped up from 8 to 9. Here's a handy table so you can see what's changed:

Site PageRank 10/25 PageRank 11/7
msnbc.com 9 8
nytimes.com 8 9
wsj.com 8 7
ft.com 8 8
portfolio.com 7 8
bloomberg.com 6 6
washingtonpost.com 5 8
forbes.com 5 4

Bonus quote, from News Corp executive Anne Spackman: "Google now affects everything we do online". Yet another reason why WSJ.com is bound to go free.

(Bleg: Does anybody know what Slate's PageRank was on 10/25 and before the Massacre?)

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