Is Google Evil Now?

Published: October 9, 2007, 1:30 pm

Tags: advertising, blogging, internet services, marketing amp amp promotion

The informal corporate motto for Google is "Don't Be Evil." There's been some buzz in the world of blogging for the past couple of weeks that would suggest otherwise. Being the inquisitive sort of person I am, I decided to see how far the rabbit hole goes. It appears to have started back on September 25th when David Airey announced in his article, Google search rank drop: advice needed, that he had removed all advertising from his blog after being penalized by Google. Apparently he then sent an email to the people who had linked to his contest. At least that's what Sucker said. A couple of days later, Courtney Tuttle noticed that John Chow's PageRank dropped from 6 to 5. The following week, Josh Spaulding noticed that Andy Beard's PageRank dropped from 5 to 4. On October 6th, Andy Beard reacted to being defamed by Google, suggesting that blogs are being penalized for mentioning PageRank within their advertising. On October 8th, he confirmed being

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