The 'Keep Google Honest' Campaign

Google is threatening your online success. It's far-reaching. It's illegal. And it may change the Internet forever unless you take immediate action right now!

Google is trying to force you and millions of marketers to market Google Plus for them. How?

Google is violating their very own guidelines that the rest of us need to live by in order to push Google Plus down our throats so that we push it down the throats of searchers.

We've summarized what this means to you, and millions of other small business owners all across the Web here at our Facebook page...

Summary: Google Has Sold Their Soul. The Price? You!

The Monopoly and Social

Google has a monopoly on Search. That is inarguable. And it's ok to own a monopoly.

It is not ok, though, to leverage that Monopoly to disadvantage competitors in other business sectors.

And that is exactly what Google is doing in its war on Facebook and Twitter (and others) for social (and other) dominance. It is damaging search for its own financial gain in many other ways, but this is the most obvious and largest issue...

Google wants to "own social." If it owns search and social, it owns the Internet. To do that, it is...

1. hurting you, the small publisher, by Google's preferential treatment it gives itself.
2. hurting its very own search results. Who wants to find an empty Google+ page over a vibrant Facebook page or personally published Web or blog page on the same person or topic? No one!

Google is indeed selling its search soul. It is damaging its search results, hurting both publishers and searchers, in order to own the Web. And if Google owns both search and social, it owns the Internet, for all intents and purposes.

It's Time For You To Take Action

This issue has indeed struck a chord all over the Web. Small publishers and business owners are seeing their futures wither away at the hand of Google's nefarious practices. It's the definition of anti-"trust."

We got the ball rolling with our initial Facebook post. Folks screaming for justice and equality on the Internet made their voices heard...

Google Has Sold Their Soul. The Price? You!

They want a course correction by Google. So do we. And so should you! Join our campaign to Un-Google The World by following these actions steps...

Act NOW!

1. Inform Yourself!

First step, check out our summary here...

Summary: Google Has Sold Their Soul. The Price? You!

Educate yourself, then tell everyone!...

2. Share With Your Friends, Fans and Followers

3. Contact The Media and Your Elected Representatives

Use this sample letter to alert your elected representatives, local media outlets and other concerned parties. Feel free to edit the letter in order to provide your own voice, but do send the letter! It's important for your community to be informed, and to know exactly how to act!

See the list of resources below in order to find the link relevant to your country of residence. Prompt your elected officials to act now by sending them your customized letter of concern. See below for a template...

Dear (Insert contact or company name): I am a concerned citizen writing on behalf of millions of small business owners and information publishers on the Web. Google is unfairly manipulating their own search results (a violation of their own terms of use) in order to push their "Google Plus" social media service down my throat. This does 2 things.... 1. It pushes other relevant content down in the search engine rankings, displaying its own "thin content" more prominently, siphoning traffic away from better resources. 2. Google is attempting to impress its already existing search monopoly to gain ANOTHER monopoly over Social Media, thus "owning" the Internet, in basic terms. (Insert a personal message or example about how this issue may impact your site or blog.) This campaign has already rallied significant support on the Web... http://www.facebook.com/SiteSell/posts/314460885266054 And is continuing to grow. Please help my goal to stop Google from leveraging itself unfairly against info publishers, small business owners, and other Social Media services. Keep the Internet fair and keep Google honest! Support my cause today by reading this summary, sponsored by SiteSell... http://sitesell.com/keep-google-honest.html We need your help and support. Sincerely, NAME ADDRESS

• UNITED STATES

  Write Your Representative
  https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

  Congress.org (contact media)
  http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

• EUROPE

  Antitrust commission of the European Union...
  http://ec.europa.eu/competition/contacts/antitrust_mail.html

• UK

  Prime Minister's office
  http://www.number10.gov.uk/contact-us/

• CANADA

  House of Commons
  http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC

  Melanie Aitken, Competition Commissioner
  http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/02943.html

• AUSTRALIA

  Prime Minister's Office
  http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/contact

4. Support These Causes and Inform Them Of Our Own Initiative

• Fair Search
• Google Watch (eWeek)
• Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace
• EPIC
• Scroogle
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Google And The Monopoly Paradox
• 10 Reasons Why I Hate Google Plus

5. Resources & Downloads

Focus On The User
http://www.focusontheuser.org/

How much better would social search be if Google surfaced results from all across the web? The results speak for themselves. This tool uses Google's own relevance measure the ranking of their organic search results to determine what social content should appear in the areas where Google+ results are currently hardcoded.

Tell Congress App for Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/congressorg?sk=app_146122365414693

Use the Congress.org Facebook app to send a customized letter to your elected representatives.

6. Relevant Reading

Posts on SiteSell Facebook

• http://www.facebook.com/SiteSell/posts/314460885266054
• http://www.facebook.com/SiteSell/posts/282071248520660
• http://www.facebook.com/SiteSell/posts/283518921705456
• http://www.facebook.com/SiteSell/posts/268330413232301

Blog Comments

• http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/is-google-about-to-make-facebook-frown/
• http://www.andreasekstrom.se/2012/01/16/gone-viral/comment-page-1/#comment-78927
• http://www.facebook.com/groups/BGYGeneration/332468243450129/
• http://www.hmtweb.com/imd/?p=1507
• http://white-label-seo-outsourcing.com/Google-plus-for-seo
• http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2012/01/tech-tips-that-are-good-to-know.html

7. Lend Your Informed Voice To The Cause By Commenting Below