The idea of search protest comes from watching things like google trends and buzz feeds. With the tracking and social promotion of items published via the web, its easy to see what everyone is looking at and reading. It also takes a page from the flash mob playbook.
If enough people put in a search term on a particular topic or promote a certain blog or article, its possible to draw attention to a single cause or idea.
The aim of a search protest would be to calibrate users via social communities to search for set key words on a specific day or hour in hopes to draw attention to a cause.
It is also possible to drive users to manipulate other types of feeds, most emailed, or most searched list.
I'll mainly post a few examples, and hopefully come up with a search protest to experiment with soon.
