Pay-Per-Post Google Japan
February 20, 2009
To the extent that I can speak on behalf of Google, I apologize that this happened. One of the messages I heard was that people wanted Google to take action in this instance, and we did. The toolbar PageRank for google.co.jp dropped from 9 to 5, and I expect that to stay for a while. That decrease in PageRank reflects a loss of trust in the google.co.jp domain. In addition, the PageRank change also has ripple effects for google.co.jp where we lose trust in the links for that domain. The team from google.co.jp will also need to submit a reconsideration request just like anyone else would.