The PageRank of Google Japan has dropped from 9/10 to 5/10, serving as a penalty for Google Japan’s involvement in purchasing paid links. In another words, Google is slapping itself for breaking a rule it sets itself. Irony.
Several days back, TechCrunch reported that Google Japan hired a local marketing firm to promote its newly launched [...]

I have notice this for quite sometime already since I have the SearchStatus extension installed on my Firefox. I was shocked when it reads the PageRank bar as 7/10 on SheepTech’s main page few months ago during the PageRank update. It must be a glitch or something, I told myself.