Google updates search algorithms; which is bad news for piracy sites

WTF, does Google think its only search engine available on the internet?

Furthermore, it simply won't work. FFS, simply add "DDL" to your search - lol... Or "torrent", whatever, but an additional keyword will make this completely useless. After all, the Google search "{content name} ext:torrent" will still work just fine, by what this article says.

In other words, this will only affect people who don't have the computer knowledge to pirate content in the 1st place ^^' ...

I honestly think this entire move is designed to push 4shared back from search engine results. Seriously.

So how bad is http://duckduckgo.com/?

that wont stop me. I'm very a efficient hunter...

It isn't about stopping piracy. Google has often used their copywrite rules to help other companies get a leg up. Got freeware hosted on a site with free hosting? Well, sites with free hosting have piracy...so now some commercial software will be at the top of the search results instead, in spite of the fact that the freeware is better.

Also, google says only VALID copywrite complaints will be used in this; I already know that is a lie. Google does not have the time to check on their millions of complaints per month, so complaints from large companies just go through without checking. Plus, they will probably start applying bad algorithms to bypass the copywrite complaint stage. Just look at YouTube; videos get taken down because they used some classical public-domain music that was in some movie at some time. The studio doesn't dare make claim, but the bots detect that it sounds similar to the version from the movie, and the video is gone. Other videos get taken down because they have political messages and someone makes a copywrite claim with nothing to back it up, not even a false claim...they just say it infringes on their unnamed copywrite and the video is gone. Thankfully google isn't going to extremes and removing these sites from the results entirely (yet), but moving a search result to page 10 is virtually the same thing. Yes, YOU might be determined enough to find it...but when the average user searches for something, they usually don't go beyond the first page.

Google has become part of the problem in order to make more money. Like everything else with a bit of power/influance, its one of the powers that be.

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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Furthermore, it simply won't work. FFS, simply add "DDL" to your search - lol... Or "torrent", whatever, but an additional keyword will make this completely useless. After all, the Google search "{content name} ext:torrent" will still work just fine, by what this article says.

In other words, this will only affect people who don't have the computer knowledge to pirate content in the 1st place ^^' ...

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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It isnt about stopping piracy. Google has often used their copywrite rules to help other companies get a leg up. Got freeware hosted on a site with free hosting? Well, sites with free hosting have piracy...so now some commercial software will be at the top of the search results instead, in spite of the fact that the freeware is better.

Also, google says only VALID copywrite complaints will be used in this; I already know that is a lie. Google does not have the time to check on their millions of complaints per month, so complaints from large companies just go through without checking. Plus, they will probably start applying bad algorithms to bypass the copywrite complaint stage. Just look at YouTube; videos get taken down because they used some classical public-domain music that was in some movie at some time. The studio doesnt dare make claim, but the bots detect that it sounds similar to the version from the movie, and the video is gone. Other videos get taken down because they have political messages and someone makes a copywrite claim with nothing to back it up, not even a false claim...they just say it infringes on their unnamed copywrite and the video is gone. Thankfully google isnt going to extremes and removing these sites from the results entirely (yet), but moving a search result to page 10 is virtually the same thing. Yes, YOU might be determined enough to find it...but when the average user searches for something, they usually dont go beyond the first page.

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