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Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Torrent Freak: In a comment to Australian media, Google states that it has demoted 65,000 [pirate] sites in search results, a list that's still growing every week. In total, the company received DMCA takedown requests for over 1.8 million domain names, so a little under 4% of these are downranked. The result of the measures is that people are less likely to see a pirate site when they type "watch movie X" or "download song Y." This means that these sites see a drop in visitors from Google and a quite significant one too. "Demotion results in sites losing around 90 percent of their visitors from Google Search," a Google spokesperson told The Age.
Good on you, Google! I am sure that you will at the same time promote the sites where I can legally purchase movies that are download-to-own, and can be format shifted so they play on all my devices, right? Oh wait...
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Duckduckgo has been serving me and a lot of people that I conversate with as a the main torrent search engine at least since 2014.( I have no idea if conversate is grammatically correct, but I heard a lot of americans using it)
"what if DDG gets forced to do such result modifcations?" people may ask.
There will always be an alternative.
also here's a not so popular opinion:
Google, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the "normie" websites are exposing the clueless users to great dangers.
What will happen if you eliminate all the legitimate trackers from the results?
All the phishing websites will pop up in the first places and the clueless user will most certainly download his malware, run it and ruin its computer.
with such practices they are not protecting their users, they are protecting their advertised customers.
Yeah, sure, I shouldn't download a PDF of a book on my shelf because reasons, whatever, it's still annoying how many alleged copies of things are really just malware waiting to steal my precious money without even a pretense of honesty.
Next I'll ask them to murder that bitch from card services. Would a jury of my peers convict me? Of course not.
Now if only they downranked all the scam sites, include youtube links, that only pretend to point to pirated content but actually either link to malware, ad link chains, or pushes to sign up for paid stuff. Then it'd be legit sites, news/journalism sites, pirate sites, and then scam sites instead of scam sites, legit sites, pirate sites, news/journalism sites.
DDG for search, Here.com Maps (and the offline app) for navigation, proper email using Thunderbird, Firefox instead of Chrome/IE/Edge....
My visits to Google these days are very few and very far between.
They grab so much of my private data from Android devices, I don't feel the need to give them anymore. F**'em.
Wow, I had no idea there were 65,000 pirate sites.... challenge accepted!
Google downranks it's value as a search resource by involving itself in arfificial de-ranking.
publishing the list, so we can choose for ourselves whether to visit them, and not let YOU dictate which sites get traffic and which do not.
Duck Duck Go and its lite version.
Findx.
Quant
I would include Startpage but they get results off Google. Qwant and DDG get results off Bing so they should probably be placed in the same boat. Findx actually has its own crawlers I think but their results are still iffy. However you can help them by adding your ranking to the results.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Not an ad company that hides results.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
So if the reason they are downranked is because they belong to some class, can I improve my search for these sites by putting the name of that class in the key word search.
If so then downranking should also result in concentration making an appropriately worded search actually produce better results.
Perhaps they could even make it an exclusive category
Pirate: Game of Thrones
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
There is tons of pirated material on youtube. Then there are the google books.
I guess wants to eliminate competition.
No errors?
All sites validated to be serving torrents of copyrighted material?
Not one mistake?
So we can conclude that everyone issuing DMCA is perfectly honest and no sites with critical viewpoints of countries, companies or people are on that list? Right?
This sounds, to me, like a protection racket in the making. "Give us money and show our ads or we'll mark you down as a pirate."
As much as censorship is distasteful, this is infinitely worse. The power it gives Google boggles the mind.
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
I mean piracy is not illegal everywhere. And it is also very anti-competitive.
You know, the big pirates who leech on artists in order to steal from their fans without having to do actual work ... because "rights owner".
I want to be " rights owner" of the money I tell others to make too!
An exckusive copyright monopoly on making copies of said money. And the privilege to tell anyone that "we worked hard for that money!" (deliberatel confusing the work for the original money and the mere copies I pay with), say he's a pirate/thief/... for not giving me that free cocaine money, and even sue HIM for ME not being able to committ said fraud.
[Posting anonymously because of my position.]
Most songs on YT have been uploaded by the studios themselves. Warner, for example, was caught red-handed.
Because everybody in the business knows that that is basically an ad for the artist/label's other songs, causing a bigger raise in profit than the "losses" which are purely imaginary anyway, given that those who download music for free are also those paying the most for it, not thr other way around... , and that you can always make more copies for free... ... err... song ... is preluded by other ads, that you get money for! Why in the world would you not do that?
Plus, your ad
Artists never made relevant amounts off music copies anyway. The measly 3.5â off a CD that used to be the best case scenario for a big artist never was mote than a dropn in the bucket of concert and merchandizing sales. You know .. stuff where somebody *actually* worked for *that* money you pay them.
Learn a foreign language to the level required to say "watch $EnglishMovieTitle online".
Example, in Romanian: "vezi $EnglishMovieTitle online". Sometimes you could get better results by adding the word "gratis" to your query.
The websites you find might be unintelligible, but the thing you're looking for might be intuitive enough for you to use even though you don't speak Klingon. Yeah, send a DMCA notice to Google Translate, because soon enough people will be searching for "online schauen", "Ver en linea", "Vaata internetis", and so on.
Regardless of language, have your ad blockers and antivirus installed and up to date, as these sites are usually hostile regardless of language. At least "update to Flash HD" might be less tempting now.
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
For science.
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Typo
65,000,000 pirates downrank Google in search preference.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
It is not yours! If they want to say only left hand red heads native born to West New Zealand born between 1970 and 1973 can have their content then that is their choice. Not yours!
How does it "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" to allow a owner of a U.S. copyright to discriminate like that, particularly in the context of "equal protection of the laws" later in the same Constitution?
... is ban any site that mentions the word "Kodi", preferably before the entire internet is filtered with website block lists.
Who's kidding whom? Those websites change their domain names all the time. Many websites have dozens of domain names simultaneously. Whack-a-mole doesn't work.
This is just amelioration to fvcking tech idiots.
There's also adding good ole "intitle:index of" to your queries, to find unprotected website listings full of goodies to plunder.