I haven’t really paid much attention to when the toolbar PR gets updated for a while now. It’s only a snapshot of what the PR was at some point in the past anyway, so it’s not hugely important to me.
I don’t imagine that Google is “ditching PR” though. It’s only one ranking factor of at least 100 ranking factors that they use in their algorithm anyway.
Unless you mean that Google’s decided to stop updating the PR indicated in the toolbar. I guess only the folks at Google know whether or not they’ve decided to do that.
Thanks for the kind words about my SEO knowledge, fatbill. You give me more credit than I probably deserve. :hattip: