Around the Net
Google Slaps Its Hand Over Chrome Campaign
- Gizmodo, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 11:57 AM
Google has hit itself with the ban-hammer over paid links that are artificially inflating Google Chrome's PageRank and breaking the company's own terms of service. The brouhaha is over a campaign that linked a sponsored post back to the Chrome download page. It would have been fine as long as they werre tagged as "nofollow" links, which allows Google's algorithms to exclude it from search rankings. Some of the links, however, did not follow the guidelines.
