Teach them to act or play their respective sports by showing them how to do it and they would quickly become more lost than an agoraphobic at a protest march. What do Tiger Woods, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, and Serena Williams have in common?
The developers who painstakingly constructed it only half a year ago must have screamed in protest," it said in a blog post. Google has stopped warning Chinese Internet users that some of the words they might search for could see them kicked off...
The Revolution Will Be Streamed -- Operation Payback: Protest or War? However, the collaborative detective work led to the wrong guy due to the fact he made a poorly calculated joke on Facebook. Human Flesh Search Engine” is often considered to be...
Iran is said to be blocking YouTube in protest of a recent anti-Islam video posted on the video-sharing site. Gmail services were shut down last week in an attempt to protest YouTube. Iranian officials have unblocked Gmail services for the country...
And Google has also used its home page for other occasions, such as when Steve Jobs died, or to protest SOPA. Apparently Google jumped the shark this week, punched some nuns in the face, and clubbed some baby seals by introducing an obtrusive new...
Whether you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or share the winning point in your eight-year-old’s basketball game without broadcasting the children’s faces to the world, our face blurring...
Weapons Ban Sparks Protest, Petition Based on Second Amendment Rights The weapons ban is part of Google’s transition to paid PLAs (Product Listing Ads) and has some Americans protesting the move as a violation of their Second Amendment rights.
Without slides and in a very relaxed tone, the president talked us through his personal experiences of new media; in particular about how instrumental social media had been as a tool for the people of Iceland to organize and protest after the fall...
Let us know in the comments if you think it was the right thing for Google to protest SOPA. Google abused its trust and misused its power when it blacked out its logo Jan.and encouraged its millions of users base to “Tell Congress: Please don’t...
The problem we seem to see over and over with privacy and other Internet-related concerns (which we also witnessed throughout the SOPA protest) is that it takes the scrutiny and evaluation of proposed legislation or policy by the public themselves...
Google also recently censored its logo to protest controversial anti-piracy bills. The largest snowflake ever observed in the world supposedly appeared 125 years ago today in Fort Keogh, Montana. A Google Doodle today prominently features a giant...
Please leave any additional protest or petition resources in the comments. Nevada Senator Harry Reid has postponed the Protect I.P.vote, while House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith announced the committee will “postpone consideration of...
As announced in advance by Google UK's Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Far, the search giant intentionally slowed crawling on SOPA blackout day to prevent harming the rankings of sites participating in the protest.
While the update hasn't received an official name, here's to hoping (as suggested on WebmasterWorld) that this update becomes known as the Google SOPA (Stop Overly Pushy Ads) Update, considering it came out the same week as Google's SOPA protest.
In addition to Google, here are some other stats the LA Times reported out of the mass online protest yesterday: million people signed a similar petition to Google’s at Avaaz.org. In September, Senators questioned whether Google had too much power.
Lamar Smith, in protest of SOPA legislation. SEMPO’s letters are available in their entirety online; read their letters in protest of PIPA or SOPA. SOPAStrike.com, from FightForTheFuture.org, has a comprehensive and living list of websites blacked...
To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American businesses, Google today has carried through on its promise to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by blacking out its...
Wikipedia and hundreds of websites (including Reddit, WordPress, and Mozilla) plan to go offline for 24 hours to protest SOPA. Generally, Google’s trademark bare home page has only been used to celebrate significant birthdays and events with Google...
I’ve seen countless tweets such as the above, and even stronger positions from contacts that have deleted their Google accounts in protest. In short, this development features personalized results from your contacts – which may be images, shared...
This time last year, search industry eyes focussed on the general quality of search results eventually causing a storm of protest from all parts of the web regarding over optimized websites that offered little of value to the user - and too many ads.
