This day in search marketing history: January 3

Google’s sponsored post campaign forces Google to penalize Google Chrome’s home pageIn 2012, Google’s sponsored post campaign to promote its Chrome browser produced posts that violated its guidelines against “thin” content and potentially those against buying links.
A day later, we found out what happened, according to Google. In Google: Yes, Sponsored Post Campaign Was Ours But Not What We Signed-Up For, Google told Search Engine Land:
“Google never agre