by Gavin O'Malley on Jan 3, 11:38 AM
Google is reportedly paying bloggers to run posts promoting its Chrome browser. As for whether the practice is ethical, or violates Google’s own terms of service, the jury is still out.
SEO Book, which first spotted to practice, calls it “Orwellian” since “Google has a clear pro-corporate big brand bias to their algorithms & layout.” In at least one instance, a blogger’s post linked to Google in seeming violation of Google’s policy against “paid links,” reports
Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan. “This is interesting, because Google has never allowed paid links inside their search results,” writes …