Google Punishes Google.JP And Drops PageRank!

I noticed this on Matt Cutts twitter, "Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9. I expect that to remain for a while." and after further investigation I found a post by Google Blogscoped, it is Google Punishing itself for link spam vis paid posts. Google.jp has recently gone hunting and buying blog posts in a promotion campaign. So when google says it is serious about paid posts on blogs, I guess, it is serious. (more info)

Tags: PageRank, paid posts, Matt Cutts, Google Blogscoped