Google Sandboxes Chrome For Paid Links

Has anyone seen these posts about Google using paid links in a campaign for Google Chrome? Apparently some shitty marketing firm they hired used a crappy campaign to try and boost video views to the site. Google got called out on it by searchengineland.com and so in response, they sandboxed Chrome for 60 days!

Pretty funny lol...

Searches for ?browser? no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page because of Google?s own sponsored post campaign.

Google said even though it felt there were no ?remaining violations? of its guidelines, the search engine?s spam fighting team was going to reduce the PageRank value of the Google Chrome home page, which in turn lead to today?s ranking decrease.

From the statement Google sent us:

We?ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site?s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days.
We strive to enforce Google?s webmaster guidelines consistently in order to provide better search results for users.

While Google did not authorize this campaign, and we can find no remaining violations of our webmaster guidelines, we believe Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.

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http://searchengineland.com/google-...agerank-reduced-due-to-sponsored-posts-106551

Maybe it's just a temporary drama to show their competitors that they don't just promote their own products but instead provide an open ground for all. I don't believe those hypocrites.

Woah. That's kind of hardcore for google to do that. But I'm very glad to hear this news, because it means google is serious about their own guidelines, even if it hurts their own site for a while. Keep up the good work, big G!

The thing is all those backlinks google chrome is getting from the news will get them back up in no time.

Like they say, no such thing as bad publicity.

I second you on that. It seems like a well planned Drama. Not sure though.

I don't know about this. My FIRST impression is that they are a bunch of pusses for doing that. I thought g00gle was the king, this makes them sound like some teen emo cutting themselves.

This was a MAJOR "Public Relations" ploy by G00gle to draw attention to the Chrome browser and nothing more. It goes to show/prove yet again, how G manipulates the SERPs for their monetary benefit.

This was not a real penalty and anyone who believes this hype, I can sell you a six BR, 7.5 BA, Tri level home that consists of 11,257 sqft, with a cascading swimming pool, situated on 50 acres of land in a private cul-de-sac, located in Los Gatos, California. As you may know, this is one of the most expensive counties in the United States.

Even so, if you believe the Google hype lies and falsities about this penalty, I can sell you this $20 million dollar house and property [See pic below] for $2000.00 cash money = sent to me anonymously of course. Upon receipt, you will receive your keys and title deed in the mail somewhere within the same time frame that G00gle removes the penalty from its OWN FRIGGIN BROWSER ASSET!

I don't really think it was a ploy, they just hired a shitty marketing firm and that firm used this company called Unruly Media, and that company used basic blog network writers to create the content.

I always think its so funny when places like Search Engine Land think stuff like this is such a big deal. Just another day of business for any one on here lol.

The campaign — most likely run by third-party Unruly, based on where the video is hosted and handy if Google wants to pass the blame — probably had instructions that just said people should write about whatever they want, positive or negative, with the only requirement being that the Chrome video be included as part of their post.

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original article: http://searchengineland.com/googles-jaw-dropping-sponsored-post-campaign-for-chrome-106348
matt cutts response: https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts/NAWunDzJSHC

Anyway It just goes to show that Blackhat works

Just don.t get caught unless you have a publicity machine as big as google

Make G products just for web-research ONLY. Don't promote them (any terms) for search user based searcher !
The more they liked, the more ads on their search engine. Up, Middle, Bottom, and sidebar. No more need relevancy with user needs.
Let's all of user close their eyes to G. Now, they're full of sh*t.