can see alot of upsides and downsides to this, firstly it’s NOT going to stop the link trade industry but it’s certainly going to hurt the broker businesses like TLA and website owners that sell on pagerank value only, it’s certainly going to cause a few issues for link buyers if they don’t have their own scoring metric and rely on PR as the only metric of link worth! It will stop clients asking me when will PR get updated, why is this site a PR7 and were only PR6, I would love to say I won’t miss Pagerank but I’m certainly not going to lose any sleep over it are YOU? Here is how the PR stats looked like in Webmaster Tools: