[jfruh]

"In this case, Google were subjected to this activity through media that encouraged bloggers to create what appeared to be paid posts, were often of poor quality and out of line with Google standards. We apologize to Google who clearly didn’t authorize this."

"Google were subjected to this activity through media that encouraged bloggers"

Wow, if someone could parse that, I'd be grateful.

[chc]

It's a blame-evading way of saying something like "Google has had to suffer the consequences of our decision to reach out to bloggers and encourage them…"

(I think the most confusing word in the original is "media" — that's essentially PR-speak for "communication.")