Climate change SEO survey: Making the web more sustainable
Uncover the link between SEO and environmental sustainability and how SEOs can aid in shaping a greener digital landscape.
Topic: Climate change
Pinterest prohibits climate misinformation in ads, content
Pinterest says any ads containing conspiracy theories, misinformation or disinformation around climate change are explicitly prohibited.
Google takes stand against climate change deniers with new ads and monetization policy
Advertisers, AdSense publishers and YouTube creators will be prohibited from running ads or monetizing content that contradicts scientific consensus on climate change.
Earth Day Google doodle offers up conservation tips to help save the planet
Google is using today's doodle to promote conservation efforts and support the World Wildlife Fund, The Ocean Agency, and The Jane Goodall Institute.
Green Ribbon, Minimum Wage, Climate Changes: Google Searches For The State Of The Union
Last night, President Obama gave his State of the Union address. During his address, Google was plotting how his speech impacted the types of search queries done on Google last night. Google was sharing statistics and charts throughout the night on their Google Politics Google+ page. Here are some of the interesting trends we saw […]
Climategate: Just How Popular Is It, According To Google?
Is Google part of a conspiracy to keep the general public from learning about the “Climategate” scandal? Believers continue to point at the odd comings-and-goings of Climategate as a search suggestion on Google as a sign that the search engine is trying to foist its own political views about global warming on searchers. Not so […]
It’s Google’s Ocean, We Just Swim In It
Earlier today Danny blogged the Google Ocean launch event live. It was the “most produced” and Apple-like of the numerous high profile Google announcements I’ve attended — featuring former Vice President Al Gore, singer Jimmy Buffett and several scientific and oceanographic luminaries such as Dr. Sylvia Earle. The crowd was star struck by Gore and […]
Live Blogging The Google Earth 5.0 / Google Ocean Event
Google is having a special event today featuring former US vice president Al Gore to announce its new Google Earth 5.0 software that features new underwater views of the world’s oceans (Google Ocean) and 3D views, as well as “historic imagery” that allows people to see the earth back in time through archived satellite views […]
The Google Homepage And Global Warming
A number of people, including those that run the sites Blackle and Darkoogle, have argued in the recent past that Google should turn its homepage (and results background) from white to black to save energy. (Both of the above sites use the Google custom search engine). Here’s some background on the controversy from US News. […]
Green Cred: Yahoo Ups The Ante In Battle To Be The Greenest Search Engine
Yahoo launched a big “green” initiative today, including a contest and two related websites — green.yahoo.com and better.yahoo.com/planet — helping to build consumer-user awareness about global warming and energy conservation, etc. It’s a laudable effort but one that takes on a different cast when viewed in the competitive world of search. In that context, TechCrunch […]
Yang & Filo Sumo Each Other To Save The World
Will wrestle for climate change from Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal blog covers that the co-founders of Yahoo put on sumo suits to wrestle each other. Jerry Yang and David Filo agreed to this match after Yahoos did their part to their impact on the environment. Why sumo wrestle? Reportedly, Yang and Filo were addicted to sumo […]