03 Jan '12, 9pm

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After reviewing its own sponsored post campaign , while Google says it feels there are no “remaining” violations of its guidelines, the search engine’s spam fighting team is going to reduce the PageRank value of the Google Chrome home page. From the statement Google sent me: 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. Lower PageRank Value Doesn’t Equal Banning Currently, the page has a PageRank value of 9. The highest you c...

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