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Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty
An anonymous reader writes: Following what appears to be a severe penalty, the popular torrent site KickassTorrents has become pretty much unfindable in Google. Meanwhile, the top search result in many locations points to a scam site that's serving malware to its visitors. For now, only DuckDuckGo presents the real site as a main result. With millions of visitors per day, KickassTorrents is arguably the most visited torrent site on the Internet, and has gained new users during the moments when the notorious Pirate Bay has been offline.
Hideki!
I always liked https://kat.ph/ now all domains (http://kickass.so/ http://kickass.to/ etc) go to https://kat.cr/
Just like their search results. Kind of ironic that they have become a laggard in an industry they used to excel at.
There are plenty of references and it is easy to find.
So not "unfindable".
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
And who's surprised by that?
Did they try just kickass? First result is kat.cr - it even comes up in the url/search bar while I am typing.
two lies.
For each copy of Windows you guys steal, Bill and Steve make less money. Which means another black baby in Africa gets malaria and one less Clipper gets a line of blow to do with his hooker tonight.
Hope you're proud of yourselves, heartless pricks!
Seems that google has some kind of (memory) corruption otherwise they (don't) censor things.
1.) So basically you can find the url via wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
2.) Kickasstorrents have a (?censor resistant?) twitteraccount:
https://twitter.com/kickasstor...
3.) you can reach KAT:
kickass.to
kat.cr
but this is as compelling as ANY of them, frankly.
after... wtf?
https://kat.cr/ That is their new location
No link to the real site? I'm not sure which is the original and which ones are just mirrors and malware.
http://kat.cr/
http://kickasstorrents.video/
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Bing returns the actual site. Not as the top result, mind you, but it's there.
I have been using Bing more and more lately. Google has just gone weird with their policies.
Kickass Torrents: KAT
kickass.proxyindex.net/
KickassTorrents Homepage – latest updates and reviews
kickasstorrents.eu/
THIS IS THE MALWARE SITE
KickassTorrents (@kickasstorrents) | Twitter
https://twitter.com/kickasstor...
KickassTorrents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
KickassTorrents
kickass.to/usearch/The%20Walking%20Dead/
KAT - Kickass Torrents
kickass-torrent.ytsre.eu/
KickassTorrents Disappears From Google After Penalty
TorrentFreak - 15 hours ago
torrentfreak.com/tag/kickasstorrents/
Profile of YIFY - Kickass Torrents
rtwn.ca/ka/user/YIFY/
KickassTorrents - Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/kicka...
Plus I'm getting a DMCA notice of 1 removal, but the link to the complaint doesn't indicate that it includes the real one.
I hadn't googled in months. Good that this is another reason to tell people to duckduckgo things and stop using google (avoiding malware).
Here is the official kickass torrents link from duckduckgo.
That is : https://www.kat.ca
Interestingly, the results for PirateBay are reversed. Google gives a working site: thepiratebay.se ... which is linked to .gd... Duckduckgo gives https://thepiratebay.org (which doesn't work directly) along with a bunch of spam squatter crap. The non-https version of thepiratebay.org works, but it is a spam minefield out there.
Virgin Media have taken it upon themselves to reduce the Internet to "programmed" content by blocking certain sites pursuant to a court order which I have yet to see. They don't even offer a LINK. What I'm getting for my fifty quid a month is basically scheduled content just like the TV. It's a six hundred quid a year fucking television licence fee!
Yet, they're advertising the internet. Selectively filtered content is NOT the internet.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Just switch to DuckDuckGo, like post NSA people did. You can even add !kickasstorrents to only search kickass in DDG.
The sooner we all switch away from Google, a search engine that logs everything, (and also has adverts on pretty much every site, and analytics on every site,) the better.
You realize that Google has all your kickasstorrent searches don't you? And if you are a lawmaker, then your kids kickasstorrent searches are also in the NSA database ready to be leverage against you? Get them into the habit of using DuckDuckGo till something better, more private comes along.
Other people in the thread have posted the eu site is malware - not sure about the us variant. the kat.cr is real.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
... I just switched to DuckDuckGo.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
Is thepiratebay.org offline? Since when?!
uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:
http://kickass.to/
Because of the following filter
||kickass.to^
Found in: Malware filter list by Disconnect
kickass torrents
First three results
Search and discuss new and favorite TV shows & TV series, movies, music and games.
kickass.to/usearch/The%20Walking%20Dead/ A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt â" learn more.
Image for the news result
KickassTorrents Disappears From Google After Penalty TorrentFreakâZ - 17 hours ago
Story posted by Soulskill - probably the explanation
1. You use search engine rather than typing in known URL of a site, to get to a site
If you RTFA, the domain name keeps changing, so it's difficult to remember when that happens.
If you RTFA, it mentioned the fact that they are currently domain-hopping due to their domains being shutdown. It's hard to remember a domain that isn't the same as the one you visited last time.
if you follow the tech news site articles, the domain name has been announced in those, including the most recent change of April 24th
Started 2008
changed to kat.ph in April 2011
kickass.to in June 2013
kickass.so in December 2014
then on April 23 2015 for one day kickass.tm then then next day
April 24 to kat.cr
tl;dr: their domain went down and it took a little while for the new ones to float to the top of google.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
The real winners are the malware creators that get their sites listed at the top now.
In order to take down the torrent trackers providing grey warez the real black ware market feeding the true criminals and terrorists are getting free space to install adware and whatnot instead.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
If you RTFA, it mentioned the fact that they are currently domain-hopping due to their domains being shutdown. It's hard to remember a domain that isn't the same as the one you visited last time.
To agree to this, and show one can't be sure if it's a real or fake site there are at least 100 thepiratebay sites https://www.robtex.com/q/x1?q=... odd thing about the list is the real address (or last good address) is at the very bottom.
And from germany the first web site which comes up is NOT kat.cr, but some sort of weird proxyfinder site. The other one might be old site.
Kickass Torrents: KAT kickass.proxyindex.net/ Search and discuss new and favorite TV shows & TV series, movies, music and games. The Walking Dead. - Kickass Torrents
kickass.to/usearch/The%20Walking%20Dead/ A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt â" learn more. KAT - Kickass Torrents kickass-torrent.ytsre.eu/
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
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It's just as stupid as finding bing throught google.... Google is known to punish search engine websites, why they have torrent search website this long is a miracle...
The thing I never understood about the Kickass torrents site is that to use it they want you to sign up for a "free account", but to get one you need to supply your credit card info. Yeah, I don't think so. I'll go elsewhere, thanks.
Been following KAT clones off of http://www.piratelist.net/ I'm not a security expert but there were a few popups from the cloned sites that avast had said it blocked something malicious. I haven't had any difficulties with my computer that I can observe to the extent of my knowledge, has anyone who has been using this have any problems?
Always suspicious of google search results if someone doesn't explicitly say that they were logged out.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Try doing a search in Google for something like this:
star wars site:kat.cr
And see what you get... I'm beginning to wonder if "site:" actually works the way we want it to now.
KAT isn't as good as it used to be. They started censoring torrents in response to DMCA requests a few months back.
I'm finding it increasingly hard to find decent releases on kickass and have started moving back to the pirate bay.
Let's hope that the agency responsible for this has thousands of users searching for TV-series on the office computers and get directed by Google to the Number 1 malware site where they download said malware on the office computers.
This is just as much a punishment to Google's own users, as it is to Kickass's. People who type in the search query are obviously looking to get to the site, not whatever malware-ridden crap Google is serving up now. Google is making their own service shittier, just to punish somebody else...way to cut your nose off to spite your face.
Stasis is death. Embrace change.
I've noticed that at least 95% of my searches can be answered within like 5 or 10 popular sites. I've set all my defaults to duckduckgo and in the rare case I need to find answers that aren't on wikipedia or stackexchange (which duckduckgo finds well), I'll use Google. It's not so much Google is vastly superior, you just have to decide your privacy is valuable and be willing to make small tweaks such as exhausting a less complete search engine before moving to Google.
I loved Chobits, the manga is much better and to the point, it is a quick read.
What has to do with anything? I don't know.
Chobits explores interpersonal relations with androids. In the manga it is written that they were not called "robots" to avoid Asimov laws :3
This will enlighten your darkness: http://www.mangareader.net/chobits
Unlike the anime, everything makes sense at the end. It is worth reading.
It's getting better. Most of the time I don't need to Google, but if I'm having trouble, I add g! to the beginning of my search and Google adds a data point to my advertising profile, but I get a second opinion, usually not very helpful.
DDG seems too good to be true really. I wonder if they're *really* not watching.
So, I went to kat.cr to check it out, and the big download button wants to download an .exe, sure I should have just clicked 'torrent' (which I did later) - but that is probably where the malware is.
"https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-over-harmful-programs-150710/"
This pretty much shows Google is moving to remove access to popular torrent sites through its services.
Funny they support Net neutrality so ardently yet when they are obviously used as a gateway, they then choose to restrict content.
Googles reasoning is "Harmful programs" one could argue that "Harmful programs" are also found on the google store.
Furthermore any programs are specifically chosen by the user so the argument does not hold water.
StartPage is only Google-sourced. Sure, anonymized so not personalized, tracked, or bubbled. But exclusively Google-sourced. Says so right on the box.
So you are "googling" at StartPage. If that isn't what you want, if you want results not wholesaled from Google, use StartPage sister site IxQuick.com. They are a metasearch of many-excluding-Google.
Or use DuckDuckGo, which gets the vast majority of general purpose search from Yandex, but may still have a bit of Bing. Many specialty searches also feed DDG but it's primarily Yandex. Again, without the tracking, filtering and bubbling of Yandex or other search wholesalers to them.
I hope you mean the real "uBlock" which is uBlock Origin, the continuation by gorhill of his real uBlock code, not the sorta-sleazy plain "uBlock" that he handed over to a minor contributor - said contributor immediately launching a donation site, not updating nearly as frequently as "real uBlock" = uBlock Origin, and not including several of gorhill's latest features such as WebRTC "real-IP leak" blocking.
The late-1990s early-20-oughts search engine "Northern Light" was exactly that (old screenshot image link ironically found on via Bing). It did just what you describe: "search providers (even paid *gasp*) who specialize in certain areas such as history, science, technology, news, etc", bundled into a singly search interface. There was both general purpose search that was free, and it also pulled in and offered premium results from topic-specialty paid providers. You could choose to search the "World Wide Web", or "Special Collections" (the paid part). Or "All Sources" to pull in both. If you had a paid account, you could see more than the excerpt on the "Special Collections" results, and choose which sources to use.
It was the dawn of the Dot-Com 1.0 bubble. Northern Light was our last best hope for that consolidated search. It failed.
At one point, during the Altavista dying-but-not-dead period, while Google was still a total newcomer, it was getting a lot of traction. But it got flanked by Google pretty quickly and sunk. It's now entirely a paid, sold for internal client companies' use, very different product with no public search engine at all. Product called "SinglePoint" and loaded with buzzword bingo in its description.