Google To Block Piracy-Related Terms From Autocomplete

An anonymous reader writes "Google is making changes in the way it presents web search results to try to exclude links that may be tied to pirated content. In a move enthusiastically praised by the RIAA, Google says it will not include terms closely associated with piracy from appearing via autocomplete. The company acknowledged that it can be hard to know what terms are being used to find infringing content, but 'we'll do our best to prevent Autocomplete from displaying the terms most frequently used for that purpose.'"

Comments

Re:Torrents

[houstonbofh]

Of course, but they are just pulling it from auto-complete, not search. Now surprise considering that typing "Despicable Me" would magically have torrent behind it. This is just moving the hookers from the street to the alley.

Good move indeed

[rastoboy29]

All they need to do is block all major movies and records and artists from autocomplete.

In fact, they should remove them from search results altogether--why, that would send the MAFIAA into paroxysms of joy, right?

Re:google can...

[TheGratefulNet]

shopping shopping shopping!

no kidding.

I search for specs or schematics or howto's and I get "BUY ME!" crap links.

I search for datasheets on chips and I get junk china sites claiming to be able to get any part I want. (fake ones from china, sure...)

its really hard to get real content from a google search now. and we've been slowly conditioned (cooking the frog) to accept that the search results are dumbed down more and more over the years.

google's day in the sun is over. they do have name recognition but no one really belives, now, that their search is any better than any other.

the auto-complete, bouncing text and blinking things only drive the nails in the coffin down harder.

when you need a pre-processor to a search site, you know they lost their mojo.