Just a few weeks ago, thousands of sites including this one protested pending legislation that could have put quite a dent into the free and open sharing of ideas online. Taken to the extreme, this legislation could have shut down such popular sites as Facebook and Youtube for allowing users to share
Do you click on paid search results on Google? A lot of us do. Do you pay for your business to show up in paid search results? A lot of us do as well. Enough to generate almost $40 billion for the search engine giant. Where does the money come from?
How does one explain some of the differing platforms of social media in a short fun way? I saw something similar to this online and thought I would expand it to include a few more social media venues. Yes, the explanation is a little bawdy, but it works. Thoughts? Contributions?
Google is not known for standing still or resting on their laurels. That goes even more so for their search algorithms. Search is a constant cat and mouse game with Google trying to stay a step ahead of those who would take advantage of the (for the most part) semi-secret algorithms.
Today, January 18th, 2012, thousands of websites including our own have gone dark to pretest SOPA and PIPA, two bills being considered by Congress that threaten online expression and free speech. Take a look at Wikipedia (pictured above) or Google (pictured in the feature image) and how they are protesting this impending
