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Snippet-title:		google_rank v1.0
Creator:		Graham Keellings
E-mail:			pivot@keellings.com
Website:		http://www.keellings.com/software/pivot.php
Creation date:		16 December 2005, Sentosa Island, Singapore
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Content of zipped file:
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snippet_google_rank.php
readme_google_rank.txt (this file)


Usage:
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1) unpack this package in your extensions/snippets/ folder.
2) place a [[google_rank]] tag, with the appropriate parameters, in any of your template files, whereever you want the google_rank to appear (side bar, page top or bottom, etc)
Syntax:  [[google_rank:<url>]] 

Examples
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[[google_rank]] 
[[google_rank:www.pivotlog.net]] 

3) rebuild the FrontPage(s).
   
Description:
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* A snippet to check a web site's Google rank.
* For more info:
* http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
* http://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html
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* Very little work from me, I just put a snippet wrapper around some code from
* Raistlin Majere (euclide at email dot it) (google_pagerank()
* and Emre Odabas (eodabas at msn dot com)


Parameters:
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* @param  string  url - pass '.' for the current web server, or any 
*                       URL without the "http://", e.g www.mysite.com
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* @return The Google rank - an integer between 0 and 10.