We conduct little tests and seo experiments all the time as it gives us a feel for the sensitivity of things. They’re not double blind scientific results or anything, but are often are useful, in keeping us amused at the very least, and some of our favourite little tricks have come from experimenting. At the moment we’re looking at PR amongst other things, and have used a recent tongue in cheeky blog post of ours about whether Google would ban Microsoft as a little experiment to show what we see over and over again with regards to SERPS and PR.

We posted on the Blog and pinged it. Then we put it on David’s TIP SEO forum then we Sphunn it.

The Results a couple of days later?

# 1 Sphinn PR6
# 2 TIP Forum PR3
# 3 Original Blog PR2

..anyone surprised by this? stepped down in PR order, and in reverse order to their indexing order too.We were unfortunately possible not very complimentary about MS Free Website product too, and fairly surprised and amused to find our lowly review up on the front page of Google with MS themselves. Still showing at # 8-10

..Whoops, wonder how long before the MIB’s turn up?

This last screenshot chuckled us too, it seems we truly are an authority site on this MS Free Website subject at the moment, up there front page for with Microsoft, for their own product name, being uncomplimentary, and in fact ranking above answers.yahoo.com with their mighty Pagerank value.. .. possibly proving that sometimes, maybe pagerank just is dying..?

Whoops, no, I just looked properly, its a PR Zero page, surprise surprise.

Wow its not often you get to troll Microsoft twice in one week