Questions loomed in the last few days about Google’s alleged campaign violating its paid link policy. Google announced that its wrists (Google Chrome’s page ranking) would be slapped for a period of 60 days as penalty for flooding the market with paid bloggers including links to Chrome’s download page.
Google denies authorizing the campaign, but acknowledges that it is held to a higher standard. Although, it is a bit coincidental that on Matt Cutts’ Twitter, he decided to take a “digital break” for one week starting Dec. 30.
In the midst of Google’s slight fall from the grace, Yahoo! announced former PayPal President Scott Thompson will assume the role of CEO. The new CEO has a technology background and is charged with propelling this Internet business back to the top of the leader board.
Not to dogpile Google, but if there was ever a time to “kick Google when its down” it is now.
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