Google has slapped down a penalty on Google Japan for publicly and somewhat arrogantly paying bloggers to write about them and link to Google Japan services.
Google is not the top search engine in Japan, which is dominated by Yahoo Japan. So, in essence, Google was link spamming Yahoo Japan.
Why do I say Google was link spamming Yahoo Japan and not “Google Japan”? Because Google Japan is a part of Google and not independent from Google.com, so it’s not like Google Japan is some rogue company or joint venture just using the Google name. Yahoo Japan however is a separate entity from Yahoo USA.
How did Google Penalize Google Japan? They dropped their PageRank from a 9 to a 5 LOL!
Good for Google to show a bit of self governance.
Their intent is really irrelevant, though. They were spamming every search engine that counts links.
how do you spam another search engine?
Thats really funy and nothing affects Google :)
Thats true how can any other search enginewill be able to penalize such a gaint search engine like google !
Disgusting :)
It reminds me of when I worked for a large beuracratic cell phone company. The in fighting was terrible. And everyone was getting paid very well. There was no need for fighting. Google just needs to keep the lines of communication open on their rules and regulations. That’s all.
Thats weird, Why google could Penalized their own Company???
how can Yahoo Japan be separate entity with Yahoo USA? hmm..
>how can Yahoo Japan be separate entity with Yahoo USA?
The majority shareholder of Yahoo Japan is SoftBank, not Yahoo.
Any good articles on the linking value of social websites? Any chance Google will ignore those sites from rankings?
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