Recently, Google was obliged to disregard all its pride and issue a penalty towards Google Japan. We are aware that Google is robustly not in favor of paid links. Unexpectedly, Google Japan was lately discovered for availing paid blog posts as a component of a promotional operation for a latest service.

Based upon Google Blogoscoped, Google Japan was compensating bloggers to assess a latest Google widget via pay-per-post assistance named Cyberbuzz. The content was written by Akky Akimoto on Asiajin blog.

According to her, the articles appear like the regular contents although containing ad tags that are delicate and unnoticeable by the readers. The ad tags were misunderstood and those are in fact article-type advertisements.

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