RIAA: Google Failing To Demote Pirate Websites

Nerval's Lobster writes "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claims that Google has failed in its attempt to lower the search-results rankings of so-called 'pirate' Websites. "We have found no evidence that Google's policy has had a demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy," read the report's summary (PDF). 'These sites consistently appear at the top of Google's search results for popular songs or artists.' Last August, Google indicated that it would start lowering the search-result rankings of Websites with high numbers of 'valid' copyright removal notices. 'This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily—whether it's a song previewed on NPR's music website, a TV show on Hulu or new music streamed on Spotify,' Amit Singhal, Google's senior vice president of Engineering, wrote in a corporate blog posting at the time. Google, which receives millions of copyright removal notices every month, also offers a counter-notice tool for those who believe their Websites have been unfairly targeted for copyright violations."

Comments

And I....

[Mitreya]

... have found no evidence that RIAA is working towards providing me with a $1,000,000 dollar stipend. So what?

"We have found no evidence that Google's policy has had a demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy,"

Google search broken in other ways too

[tippe]

Oh yeah? I searched for "useless twits", "thieving bastards" and "lying motherfuckers" and in none of the cases did "RIAA" appear near the top of the list. Clearly google has a lot of work to do to fix their search engine...

Re:Good for Google

[the_Bionic_lemming]

Have to agree...

Ex- Microsoft shill posting in Ubuntu now.

Fuck windows 8