SOPA Debate Just a quick post for your coffee break, but this video is so good that we had to share it. Today, Google published their search trend data as an interactive summary called, as always, Zeitgeist.
Google spent some of its lobbying funds this year on the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA). Google spent more on U.S.lobbying efforts than any other technology firm in America, according to statistics from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).
We also compiled and submitted thoughtful and informative communications to the Senate and the House of Representatives concerning the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation, and we mobilized others to do the same.
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...
Google and other Internet companies oppose and stop the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Google blacked out its home page warned that SOPA would slow Internet innovation. Technology giants – and often competitors – Google, Facebook, Amazon, and eBay...
Blackburn was the co-sponsor of SOPA, and one of its biggest online supporters. Is this perhaps a way of getting back at Google’s role in helping to stop SOPA, or is this a legit attempt to prevent online human trafficking?
We don’t mind acronyms when they’re not evil like, say, SOPA or PIPA, for example. It’s not easy to empower and trust employees to actively participate in your organization’s social media strategy, says Josh Bernoff, but it’s absolutely necessary.
It seems RIAA President Cary Sherman is still steamed that Google was able to derail the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) by encouraging more than 7 million people to sign petitions opposing the legislation.
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...
Mozart created the popular anti-SOPA videothat took big media to task over their participation in the distribution of piracy software over the last decade. Obama also answered questions submitted by YouTube users and, though most of the questions...
Don't tell the SOPA patrol! Google's Search Plus Your World is the most recent and arguably most significant change the search engine behemoth has made to search yet. In the old days (old = a couple of weeks ago) search results could be based on...
Late last week, announcements came down putting both PIPA and SOPA on hold. Chamber of Commerce in a January 1, 2012, New York Times article; figures that have been drilled into the American conscious by Senators, Congressmen and SOPA supporters...
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.
Google added 4.5 million names to a petition opposing controversial anti-piracy bills SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the Los Angeles Times reported. The petition, which is still available via Google’s End Piracy, Not...
SOPA is proving to be more resilient than many had hoped, with Rep. First, SOPA would reduce freedom of expression and undermine the dynamic, innovative global Internet. While many cheered, “SOPA is dead!
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...
But tomorrow, millions of people visiting Google’s home page will be greeted with a link demonstrating the company’s opposition to controversial anti-piracy bill SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. Wikipedia and hundreds of websites (including Reddit...
WordPress urged their 60 million users to visit Stop American Censorship and take action against SOPA 41 senators are needed to block the vote. Koozai’s Online Marketing Manager has put together a wish list of items he wants the community to take...
Torrent Freak brings up and interesting point asking why is SOPA needed if the courts are issuing these warrants. Google's opposition to SOPA may have motivated a judge to rule they and other search engines and social networks had to drop listings...
