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Websites Protest SOPA & PIPA Today

Posted: January 18, 2012 in Google

Today many websites are protesting in the hopes to increase awareness about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Big names such as Google, Twitter, Craigslist, Wikipedia and many more are protesting by either completely censoring their website or devoting large sections of their homepage to the protest by providing resources people can read to further educate themselves on what these acts actually would mean for the internet and how it is controlled.

Below are several examples of websites protesting SOPA and PIPA.

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Is Using the Cloud Greener?

Posted: September 16, 2011 in Google
Do you know the carbon footprint your business is creating? If you do, how could that footprint possibly be reduced?

Recently posted of Google’s Blogs was the benefits of an individual business utilizing Gmail (cloud computing) versus running an in house server for email. In fact Google’s research showed cloud computing has the potential to be 80 times more energy efficient. This dramatic increase in efficiently is due to Google using data centers that are not only designed with hardware and software specifically made to function as email servers. The outcome results in 4 Google servers can handle and process the work of six average businesses that would normally have six independent servers.

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Google closed their post stating:
“There’s still a lot to learn about the global impacts of cloud computing, but one thing we can say with certainty: bit for bit, email for email, and video for video, it’s more efficient in the cloud.”
 
 
 

 

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View Weather on Google Maps

Posted: August 19, 2011 in Google, Google Maps

Yesterday Google announced the roll out a new feature that lets users view the weather anywhere around the world in Google Maps.

The new feature offers users the ability to add a “weather layer” to any map they are viewing via Google Maps. When viewing the weather feature click on the weather icon for city and an info window will open containing the predicted forecast for the next four days and details such as the current humidity and wind conditions. All the weather information is weather.com.

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To activate the feature click on the weather layer option in the widget contained on the top right hand corner of the map.

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Google+ for Businesses

Posted: July 14, 2011 in Google, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Optimization

Google+, Google’s effort to turn the entire search engine entity into one giant social network saw success for personal Google+ accounts. Although, Google has requested businesses to postpone creating Google+ profiles for the time being while they further develop + features for business profiles. Even so, several major brands including Ford, Mashable and Breaking News created profiles anyway.

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Google had not planned on reviling their business profiles for Google+ until later this year but due to the frenzy of businesses pressuring Google for business profiles Christian Oestlien, group product manager at Google announced on his blog they are running a test phase that businesses can apply for to be part of the testing. Be sure to apply for your business to be part of the test by going to http://goo.gl/zq95C. Applications to be part of the test phase end this Friday. We at Organik SEO have applied and so should your business.

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