SOPA is DEAD!

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-...th-pulls-bill/



Clearly, Greenie and I are to thank for this, since we very bravely shut down a couple of link lists in protest of SOPA.

You're welcome, America.

I guess he finally asked the "nerds" who know how the internet works, cuz you know... only "nerds" use the internet nowadays.

[Useless]

Our lord, Google, actually slowed their crawl rate in order to aid those of us who were protesting SOPA.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article...rotesting-SOPA

GoogleBot Slowed... Well, to a Crawl

The Next Web cites web performance and security company CloudFlare in showing a 60.7 percent decrease in Google's crawl rate on January 17. This is an inevitable and natural result of its spying an increase in 503 headers, the recommended cue to GoogleBot that the temporary blackout content should not be indexed. Baidu also slowed to a lesser extent, by 11.23 percent.

Bing, on the other hand, crawled 2.35 percent faster. TNW's Brad McCarty noted, "The unintended consequence here is that today Google perhaps has results that are not as 'fresh' as Bing. However, it's also possible that Bing's increased crawl rate has left it with a few more results that are indicative of the blackout, instead of what a site's content actually is."