October 2007 PageRank Update Partly Underway

More and more people are speculating about the upcoming PageRank update, originally slated for July an then expected in August or September for sure. It would seem that high-profile sites like John Chow are getting some special attention due to Google’s recent concern for people gaming the system with paid reviews – he has apparently dropped from PR6 to PR5, though he apparently enjoys the attention. For a while DMOZ also slipped in Google searches though it has come out on top again – though Google is reportedly penalizing a great many directories these days, in part for selling paid links. A lot of people are just dying to know their PageRank, since it is by far the most infrequently updated metric on the web. Have you seen any signs of yours updating?