This day in search marketing history: January 2

Google’s jaw-dropping sponsored post campaign for ChromeIn 2012, Google – a search engine known for fighting against paid links and “thin” content – seemed to be behind a campaign that generated both on behalf of its Chrome browser.
A search for [This post is sponsored by Google] returned more than 400 pages, written apparently as part of a Google marketing campaign:
Google? Buying links? It sure looked like it:
It was also hypocritical because Google was