Google Link Removal Requests Climb To 345 Million In 2014

After analyzing Google’s weekly link removal reports for 2014, Torrent Freak says the search engine received more than 345 million requests last year – a 75 percent increase compared to the number of link removal requests in 2013.

With more than five-million targeted URLS each, Torrent Freak said that the majority of takedown requests were connected to three specific domains: 4shared.com, rapidgator.net and uploaded.net.

“The majority of these requests are honored with the associated links being removed from Google’s search results,” said Torrent Freak.

Some requests receive a “no action” status if Google determines there is no copyright infringement, or the link has already been removed.

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