Say NO to ACTA & Stop ACTA e-petition. Petitions to demand that United Kingdom MPs and United Kingdom representatives to and in Europe officially oppose the proposed ACTA legislation. This legislation, drawn up in secret, proposes making Internet Service Providers collect information on their users and police their use of the internet, by making the ISPs legally responsible for the internet use of their customers. This would have devastating effects on free speech, access to affordable medicine, and exchange of culture.

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Nice infrographic from the MajesticSEO crew.

I’m going to go ahead and assume that you are aware of last weeks SOPA protests that resulted in several of the internet’s largest properties self-censoring in protest. While the internet lit up with debate and discourse about the potential moral, financial and ethical dimensions of the SOPA bill, us SEO types had a very different reaction to the protest.

It’s an opportunity to run studies and gather some sweet sweet data.

Read the full SOPA & Google post on the Forward3D blog.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ll know Google launched it’s (latest) fledgling social network Google + late last year. Cue Google Search, plus Your World:

The website focus on the user have created a tool to combat Google’s one-sided view of the social web presented by Google + search your world.

The ‘Don’t be Evil’ tool searches Google for the name of the Google+ page. Then, the tool identifies the social profiles within the first ten pages of Google results (top 100 results). Social Web According to Google + Search Your World. Essentially serving results from the wider social web.
Search plus your world seems to trigger more on Google.com than Google.co.uk at the moment.

More on the Forward3D blog Don’t be Evil – Include all the social web!