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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.

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  1. Google needs our help (kickass.to kat.cr) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  2. It moved to new domain by giveen1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://kat.cr/ That is their new location

  3. Re:Points at DuckDuckGo by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the search term "KickassTorrents":

    google.com returns "kickasstorrents.video" as the first result
    google.ca returns "kickasstorrents.pw" as the first result
    bing.com returns "kickasstorrents.ee" as the first result
    duckduckgo.com returns "kat.cr" as the first result, with a big "OFFICIAL SITE" red label

  4. Re: Points at DuckDuckGo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Better yet just go to the torrent freak website. They list the top 10 torrent sites and keep their links up to date. Torrent freak is also a great news site for the latest p2p happening. https://torrentfreak.com/