Google Penalizes Forbes For Selling Links, Again

Article needs some proof reading.

TechCrunch has been watch Forbes for a few

Thursday, Web site administrators for major sites including the Washingtonpost.com, Techcrunch, and Engadget (as well as Forbes.com) found that their "pagerank"--a number that typically reflects the ranking of a site in Google.

How are Forbes' "paid links" different from Adwords on a page?

Adwords are inserted by Javascript, so don't pass any link juice.

Google is capable of crawling Javascript links and flowing juice through them these days, at least some of the time. Test if you don't believe me: Googlebot is capable of both JS evaluation and heuristics to get useful things without fully evaluating the JS.

One would assume that they don't pass link juice for AdWords ads.

What's with the witch hunt? Search has been dirty for years.