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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!
Did they try just kickass? First result is kat.cr - it even comes up in the url/search bar while I am typing.
sad but true. Im finding myself using bing more and more because google is not giving me what i am searching for
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
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
Wahahahahahaha....damn that shit is hilarious. Sadly I have no points but you sure as hell deserve +5 Funny!
Bing was set up on our computers as the default search engine but it only took about a week and now there's not a computer at work that still defaults to bing.
https://kat.cr/ That is their new location
For each copy of Windows you "steal", you became a windows user regardless, and when you get hired by a big company, they have to actually buy windows (or get sued to give microsoft some cool millions) to you be able to work on it.
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.
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
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
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.
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
I'd take it's word for it, read the post below (the .to site has been down a few years now)
Re:signs you may be ignorant twat when using brows
by iggymanz
But they still use the old IP address's out of Montréal, Canada; this game of hide and seek isn't working all that well.
Kickass.to
The IP address 68.71.58.34
The IP address 78.138.99.144
The IP address 205.204.64.122
"Which hostnames and domains point to the same IP address as kickass.to? kat.cr"
https://www.robtex.com/en/advi...
Kat.cr
The IP address 68.71.58.34
The IP address 78.138.99.144
The IP address 205.204.64.122
https://www.robtex.com/en/advi...
Personalized search results might be scary, but are extremely useful.
That's not likely to be the real site.
Google won't think for you.
Unfortunately, Google tries to think for you all the time, and usually make a bad job of it. You can't possibly be searching for [thing you typed], you must mean [thing with a similar name that's much more popular on social media this week]. You don't want established information about [thing you typed], you want 3 search pages of the same [parroted news story vaguely related to thing from this morning]. You don't want [famous torrent site], you want [misleadingly named malware domain because we've nuked the actual site for some mysterious reason of our own]. Once upon a time, Google was used by people who were happy to think for themselves. Now it targets the mass market, and has algorithms designed to second guess poorly constructed searches at the expense of dumbing down the experience for the minority of users who can put together a precise set of search terms. It feels like a blunt instrument now - finding anything obscure always seems to need multiple quoted strings (like AltaVista back in the day) and Verbatim mode.
Simple solution: For work, use google and get optimised results.
For whatever else you search (weird pr0n, I assume, it is always weird pr0n): use duck duck go and you won't (hopefully) be tracked.
I have no fear.
I have determined that my sig is indeterminate.
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.'"
Typing in "screen" and having GNU Screen come up is scary, because that means they are building search results based on your personal information.
Or they might be tailoring the results depending on the User-Agent, in my case: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
I figure they do something like: "If User has Linux Browser User Agent then give priority to Linux related search results"
Explaining why GNU Screen is the first result when I search for "screen"
try:
"graphics card review -shop -buy"
But I just slapped "Evga GT750 review" into google and the first 3 sites are actual reviews, the 4th being Evga's own site.
In my tests, DDG returned the best results, then Bing, then Google. Which, honestly makes sense. Bing's results are better for the same reason Mac's are/were so much safer. Being #2, you get to avoid most of the effort because it goes into fucking up #1.
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