Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results (telegraph.co.uk)

Google and Microsoft pledged on Monday to crack down on sites hosting pirated content that show up on their search engines. In what is being called a first of its kind agreement, Google and Microsoft's Bing will demote U.K. search results of copyright infringing websites. From a report on The Telegraph: The search engine operators have signed up to a clampdown that will see the UK's copyright watchdog monitor the search results they provide for unlawful websites. The agreement follows years of campaigning by record labels and film studios, which have accused Google and Microsoft of turning a blind eye to piracy and dragging their feet over measures to protect copyright online. Under a new voluntary code, the tech giants have committed to demote websites that have repeatedly been served with copyright infringement notices, so that they do not appear on the first page for common searches.

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DuckDuckGo

[Anonymous Coward]

This should pump up traffic to DuckDuckGo.

Re:DuckDuckGo

[ls671]

Are you sure?

DuckDuckGo emphasizes getting information from the best sources rather than the most sources, generating its search results from key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia and from partnerships with other search engines like Yandex, Yahoo!, Bing, and Yummly.[5][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Crackdown - WRONG

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Grammar Nazi here. When used in this context, "crackdown" is actually separated into two words, that is, "crack down".

If they're launching an initiative or describing a method or process , then it would be "Blah blah blah will institute a crackdown on piracy..."