There was a marketing campaign that Google carried out to promote its Chrome browser. Google hired a marketing company to promote some web videos, and that company in turn hired bloggers to post the videos. The problem came to light when some SEOs noticed the campaign and found a couple of those bloggers using 'dofollow' links to the Chrome homepage, which is a violation of Google’s guidelines.
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