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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.
Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.
Doesn't change the fact that their search sucks. There's just no clear competitor yet who obviously sucks less.
Just look at something as simple as trying to find a review of a graphics card, as I did a few days ago. Hundreds of retail sites which list the card, just because the page mentions 'review', before I get to an actual honest-to-god review.
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.