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Google Penalizes Google Japan
SEM News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Published: Feb 12, 2009 - 04:00 pm
Story Found By: Alysson 1094 Days ago
Category: SEM
I absolutely love the irony of Google penalizing Google. Okay, it’s Google penalizing Google Japan, but still...it’s classic.
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from amabaie 1094 Days ago #
Votes: 2

I love Monty Python!<div id="seolinx-tooltip" style="border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; display: none; opacity: 0.9; position: absolute; width: auto; z-index: 99999"><table border="0" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; border-collapse: separate; width: auto"><tbody><tr><td id="seolinx-table" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 1px; padding: 0pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold"><div style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; overflow: auto; width: auto"><table border="0" style="border: 1px solid gray; margin: 0pt; border-collapse: separate" id="seolinx-paramtable"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" PR: wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" I: wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" L: wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" LD: wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" I: wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap">wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" C: wait...</td><td style="border: 1px solid gray; padding: 2px; background: #f0f0f0 none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: darkgreen; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap"><img style="vertical-align: middle" src=" SD: wait...</td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td id="seolinx-tooltip-close" style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt; padding: 1px; cursor: pointer; vertical-align: middle; width: auto"><img src="chrome://seoquake/content/skin/close.gif" alt="" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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from Harith 1094 Days ago #
Votes: 1

"How long will this PageRank penalty last? Matt Cutts of Google said, “I expect that to remain for a while.” Any takers on what “a while” means?"I wouldn’t be surprised if Google keep the PR penalty on google.co.jp for around 3 months. Of course google.co.jp is most welcome to file a reconsideration request to  Google WebSpam Team which might help to shorten the duration of the said penalty :-)

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from bluesnapper 1094 Days ago #
Votes: 2

I think this shows the power of online social media - would Google have penalised itself if the news of pay-per-review hadn’t spread so quickly and so widely that it resulted in a groundswell of negative comments?

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from Harith 1094 Days ago #
Votes: -2

For the record and to be fair, Matt Cutts acted promptly once he was made aware of the problem with google.co.jp. Here are some of his relevant tweets:"......., I’m checking on what’s going on. Folks in Japan are in a different time zone, so it might take me a little while to find out." http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1193319430"......, my team isn’t 100% done with the investigation on our side, but I would expect us to take action on this, not just apologize." http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1200074346"Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9. I expect that to remain for a while." http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1200910626"..... , it reflects less trust toward that domain." http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/1201050186Keep up the good work, GOOG WebSpam Team. You’re making a difference :-)

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from onreact 1094 Days ago #
Votes: 0

I wait for "Google lays off Sergey Brin to cut founder costs by 50%".

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from sza 1094 Days ago #
Votes: 3

So, thanks to this public relations exercise... ...will google.co.jp not rank first for "Google" in itself?...will google.co.jp not rank first for "Google Japan" in any Google search?...will revenues of google.co.jp from selling links on their home page take a hit?...will Googleplexers not trust their Japanese colleagues for a couple of months?...did Google prove anything to anybody?It’s the most ridiculous and meaningless decision in possibly the whole history of Google.

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from marketposition 1094 Days ago #
Votes: 2

The other question to ask, if no one really would have caught this and made a big deal out of it, would Google have? Doubtful.

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from bpcombs 1093 Days ago #
Votes: 0

I would love to hear more about the "less trust to the domain" factor. That might actually be a penalty. Losing PR isn’t that big a deal unless you’re selling links, not buying them.

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from KenJones 1093 Days ago #
Votes: 0

Well, google.jp still ranks first for [google japan] when searched from google.co.uk so the PR penalty hasn’t affected their ranking ability that badly.  Seriously though, how is Google dropping the PR of a Google site going to make a jot of difference anyway?  I know some people might use Google to search for Ask or Yahoo, but is anyone ever going to google (verb) Google (noun)?What would be more interesting would be to find out what, if any, punitive actions the other SE’s take on google.jp for buying links.  If Yahoo Japan reduces Google’s rankings that might have more of an effect (assuming a similar pattern of Japanese users searching for a less widely used engine (google.jp) by using their country’s preferred engine (Yahoo).Matt Cutts putting Google Japan on the naughty step for a couple of months is just a nice display of public contrition for the sake of glossing over the negetive press this has brought from the SEO/Tech community.  It won’t be noticed by the world at large and it won’t change anything.

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