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Google Denies Demoting the Pirate Bay In Some Countries (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what's-happening dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google and The Pirate Bay have had an interesting relationship over the years, to say the least. This week, users pointed out that The Pirate Bay can appear significantly lower down in search results (and definitely not on the first page), depending on which country you are searching in. We reached out to Google, and it denied the allegations that it was demoting the site. TorrentFreak first spotted the odd behavior. The publication used Chrome in incognito mode to search for "The Pirate Bay" in Google with different IP addresses to see where the site's thepiratebay.org domain showed up. An IP address in the U.K., for example, would result in The Pirate Bay showing up on the fifth or sixth page, while an IP address in the U.S. would bring back The Pirate Bay as the top result.

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  1. Re:Well it's 'blocked' in the UK.... by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Killing bad mod

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  2. Definitions by XXongo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    your mod was not alive, hence you did not kill it

    In English, words sometimes have more than one meaning. Here is meaning 2 from Meriam-Webster:

    kill verb \ kil \
    Definition of kill
    transitive verb
    ...
    2. a :to put an end -to kill competition - a change that could kill our chances for success
    b :defeat, veto - killed the amendment
    c :to mark for omission; also :delete - kill a quote
    d :annihilate, destroy - kill an enemy

    1. Re:Definitions by Dthief · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah. Baley says its "modicide"

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