Not So Evil: Google Penalizes Chrome’s PageRank For Policy Violation

"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death" - Julius Caesar. Google does too, apparently. The company has lowered the PageRank of its Chrome download page after violating its own paid link policy during a sponsored blog post campaign for the browser by Google's ad agency Unruly Media. Google's head of webspam Matt Cutts responded to criticism of the campaign last night, saying his team "has taken manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome for at least 60 days". Some accuse Google of lying about not knowing it was buying sponsored blog posts through Unruly. I argue it might have thought it was buying StumbleUpon Paid Discovery or other legitimate ads.

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