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Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing in SOPA Protest

18 January 2012

Wikipedia blackout

SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is designed to allow content owners and Governments to block internet access to websites containing unauthorised copyright material by obtaining a court order.

Payment gateways, internet service providers, search engines and advertisers would be forbidden from doing business with overseas websites which have court orders against them.

Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing have all taken their sites offline in protest against the proposed act

This week the White House joined the side of the critics of the legislation stating that: "While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global internet."

When Dick Costolo, the Cheif Executive of Twitter, was asked whether it would join the protest he tweeted, "Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish."

When your kids say "Where were you when the government made the internet lame?"
you'll hopefully respond with unflinching certainty: "raising hell." (Destructoid.com)

The following websites are also joining the protest today by either taking their sites offline or adding messages of support, like the one below, to their homepages.

    Imgur
    Tor Project
    Miro
    iSchool at Syracuse Universi
    Mozilla
    WordPress.org
    MoveOn.org
    Good Old Games
    TwitPic
    Minecraft
    Mojang
    Destructoid
    Good.is

The 'Reasonable Surfer' patent

15 December 2011

In 2010 Google was granted a patent called "Ranking documents based on user behavior and/or feature data" which it had originally applied for in 2004.

The Google Search Globe

1 December 2011

In the Google Search Playground there are a number of interesting projects to play with. My favourite today is the Search Globe.

Video optimisation for YouTube

29 November 2011

As Fuse embark on a number of video optimisation projects we thought we'd keep you updated on any tips and pitfalls we encounter along the way.

Real-time Google Analytics

16 November 2011

Here at Fuse we are astounded by Google's latest surprise launch. We logged in to see which new features have been added to the upgraded Google Analytics and found one of the new options is real-time data.

Ten recent Google algorithm tweaks

16 November 2011

In August Google published a post on their Inside Search blog which gave us a behind-the-scenes look at the process involved in their algorithm changes.

Businesses and Brands join Google+

8 November 2011

Google+ Pages (Google+ for business) is being rolled out across the world today. The latest post on the Official Google Blog describes how Google+ Pages now allows people to connect and 'hangout' with large and small businesses.

Google+ business profiles removed

22 July 2011

Over the last two weeks, Google has been removing thousands of business accounts from Google Plus. Sesame Street and Ford are two of the largest businesses that have been hit so far. Google's explanation to those affected stated that "we are currently limiting profiles to real people and will be launching a profile for businesses and other entities later this year."

Google explains how to recover from Google Panda

19 May 2011

In a post last week on the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Amit Singhal provided a list of questions that site owners (who have been adversely affected by the Panda update) should ask themselves about their website's content.

Magento online store for tough mobile phones launched by Fuse

5 April 2011

Fuse have been working with Tuffphones, the online retailer of 'tough mobile phones' and are proud to announce the launch of their new Magento 1.5.0.1 site today.

With search engine optimisation fully in mind, Fuse have ensured that the site gets off to the best possible start. The Magento platform provides search engine friendly URLs and an intelligent 301 redirect system built-in which means none of their previous link building efforts will be wasted.

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