I'm sorry but this is a complete joke. Matt, I know you read HN so I'd love to have an answer to this. How does demoting www.google.com/chrome improve the searcher's experience if they are in fact looking for information on Google Chrome? I thought Google was all about returning the best results possible. Also, why wouldn't you just devalue the link placed in the sponsored post? There's no way that one link was significantly holding up the ranking of that page.
Also, what if Google had asked the bloggers to put rel="nofollow" on the links but they forgot to add it. Would you guys still penalize the page that received the link?
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I'm sorry but this is a complete joke. Matt, I know you read HN so I'd love to have an answer to this. How does demoting www.google.com/chrome improve the searcher's experience if they are in fact looking for information on Google Chrome? I thought Google was all about returning the best results possible. Also, why wouldn't you just devalue the link placed in the sponsored post? There's no way that one link was significantly holding up the ranking of that page.
Also, what if Google had asked the bloggers to put rel="nofollow" on the links but they forgot to add it. Would you guys still penalize the page that received the link?