Google says no algorithm changes in new deal to demote pirated content in UK search results
Google and Microsoft Bing agree to reduce pirated content from their search results in an agreement named the Voluntary Code of Practice.
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Columbia University researchers claim 28% of Google’s URL takedown requests are invalid
Among the questionable DMCA notices, 4.2% of the takedown requests targeted sites that failed to include any copyright infringing content.
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Google Link Removal Requests Climb To 345 Million In 2014
Torrent Freak study reveals the number of Google’s takedown notices were up 75% from 2013.
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Reports: Google Pirate Update Has Rolled Out This Week
Last week, we reported that Google will be pushing out an update to the Google Pirate Update in the upcoming weeks. It looks like Google pushed that update out a few days ago. Torrentfreak reports the update has impacted many torrent sites. Here is a s…
After More Than Two Years, Google Finally Releasing New “Pirate Update” To Fight Piracy
In August 2012, to stem accusations that it doesn’t do enough to fight piracy, Google released what’s known as the Pirate Update, a system that penalized sites deemed to be violating copyright laws. Next week, Google is finally going to refresh that system to catch new offenders and…
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Google DMCA Notices Reach Record High With 7.8 Million Link Removal Requests Filed In One Week
Going on Google’s recent takedown notice numbers, it looks as if the site may be spending as much time on link removal requests as it is algorithm updates. According to TorrentFreak, Google is now processing an average of more than a million takedown requests a day, an enormous increase from…
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MPAA: 82 Percent Of Searches Leading To Pirated Content Come From Google
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today accused Google and other search engines of playing “a significant role” in directing consumers to pirated movies and TV shows, with a special callout for the amount of Google searches that lead to infringing material. It’s the…
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Bing Reports They Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of DMCA Complaints Every Month
Because of their share of the search market, Google is most frequently targeted by copyright holders filing DMCA complaints, but the search giant is not the only one managing requests to remove unlawful links from search results. TorrentFreak reports B…
New Research Says Search Engines Have Little To Do With Promoting Pirated Content
A new research paper authored by Matt Schruers and published by the Computer & Communications Industry Association argues that search engines have been unfairly targeted in the quest to impede online copyright infringement. According to the paper, the perception is that search engines are the…
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Google Continues Censoring Piracy Related Search Suggestions By Blocking Grooveshark
TorrentFreak reports Google has added another web site to the piracy block list for their instant search suggestions. The site is named Grooveshark, which is a popular free music streaming service. Google would not comment specifically about Grooveshark but told TorrentFreak, “our algorithms…
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Google’s Schmidt: Hollywood Should Take Content Pirates To Court
Google’s Eric Schmidt says that the entertainment industry should focus on taking content pirates to court, rather than just trying to get Google (and other search engines) to remove pirate sites from search results. His comments, reported by Variety, came yesterday during an impromptu chat…
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Google Refuses Hollywood Studio Requests To De-List File Storage Site Mega
In recent weeks, Hollywood studios NBC Universal and Warner Bros both submitted DMCA takedown requests asking Google to de-list the file storage website Mega from its search index. According to a report on TorrentFreak, NBC Universal claimed Mega’s homepage linked to the NBC-owned film Mama,…
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Google Removes Links To Documentary In Response To Invalid Takedown Requests By Hollywood Studios
The recently released TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away from Keyboad, a documentary that sympathizes with the founders of the infamous file sharing website The Pirate Bay, has become the target of fraudulent link takedown requests from major Hollywood Studios, including Viacom, Paramount, Fox…
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