Google: Pirate Update
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Google’s Pirate Update is a filter introduced in August 2012 designed to prevent sites with many copyright infringement reports, as filed through Google’s DMCA system, from ranking well in Google’s listings. The filter is periodically updated. When this happens, sites previously impacted may escape, if they’ve made the right improvements. The filter may also catch new sites that escaped being caught before, plus it may release “false positives” that were caught.
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...
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....
Google Received More Than 65 Million URL Takedown Requests In The Past Month
The current number of weekly URL copyright removal requests is nearly double what it was this time last year....
JustWatch Claims Google’s Anti-Piracy Efforts Haven’t Hurt Streaming Sites
Google's Piracy Update has worked well removing torrent sites but not so well with illegal streaming sites, says a...
Piracy Groups Want Google To Remove The Whole Site After Valid DMCA Filings
Google writes a letter to the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator opposing whole-site removal over DMCA...
9 Outcomes Of Google’s Pirate Algorithm: Should You Be Concerned?
In light of Google's update to its pirate algorithm in October 2014, columnist Neil Patel explores its impact thus...
Getting Better, But Google Still Has Work On Piracy: The Game Of Thrones Story
The search engine scores exceptionally well fighting piracy on generic searches for the popular TV series. But for the piracy-prone searches...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bing Reports They Receive Hundreds Of Thousands Of DMCA Complaints Every Month
Because of its share of the search market, Google is most frequently targeted by copyright holders filing DMCA complaints, but the search giant...
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...
Google Continues Censoring Piracy-Related Search Suggestions By Blocking Grooveshark
TorrentFreak reports Google has added another website to the piracy block list for their instant search suggestions. The site is named...
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 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...
Hollywood Asks Google To Stop Listing Piracy Documentary, Claiming It’s Piracy Too
The recently released TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay – Away from Keyboard, a documentary that sympathizes with the founders of the infamous file...
50 Million Pages Removed From Google This Year Due To DMCA Piracy Reports
We know that the number of DMCA requests have risen since Google introduced its Pirate Update, a penalty against sites that have an unusual...
Google Transparency Report Now Showing False Takedown Requests
TorrentFreak reports that Google updated their transparency report to now show the number and specific details on the false takedown requests...
