Google lowers PageRank for Google Chrome homepage

In a case of “it’s nice to see them play fair” Google has lowered the PageRank value of Chrome. According to the statement sent to Search Engine Land from Google:

”We’ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site’s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days.

We strive to enforce Google’s webmaster guidelines consistently in order to provide better search results for users.

While Google did not authorize this campaign, and we can find no remaining violations of our webmaster guidelines, we believe Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.”

Search Engine Land has taken a very in depth look at this if you want more details than you could ever imagine on this story.