Google slowed indexing for SOPA protests
If you launched a website yesterday and were wondering why Google’s spider software wasn’t indexing your new site, there’s a reason. Seems it was a considered decision by Google to maintain current standing in the search engine rankings for those websites protesting U.S. SOPA legislation.
A number of sites, in fact, saw almost no indexing.
Google itself didn’t go black yesterday; at least not the same way Wikipedia and others did. But they did show support by displaying a black bar across the top of their homepage logo, and perhaps more telling, supported the protesting sites by holding their place in the search index.