Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
Here's a hypothesis that is more generous to Google (I don't know the real reason): some Google campaign that pays per download of Chrome is prompting site owners to generate this low-quality content.  It seems more plausible to me than Google paying directly for this, because it's a terrible marketing campaign.<p>There's an onclick handler on the link to the Chrome download site on the blog that is in the screenshot on that page.  I can't figure out what it does, though I did see when I clicked on it that my browser hit some URLs containing the substring "googleadservices", "conversion", and the Chrome download URL.