TorrentFreak are reporting that Google have added a sitelinks section to some of their search results, and this is including the Pirate Bay.
A few weeks ago Google announced its new and improved “sitelinks” section. This section also appears when searching for Pirate Bay related keywords and lists links to popular sections of the site.
In an additional new move, it now shows a prominent search box that people can use to search for content on The Pirate Bay directly from Google.
The feature also works with other large search related sites and wasn’t intended for The Pirate Bay specifically. However, considering the entertainment industries’ previous critique this will soon be added to their long list of complaints.
Perhaps even more painful than the search box itself is the fact that the new sitelinks also support AutoComplete. This means that people get pirate-themed search suggestions if they use the box in question.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 09 2014, @01:28PM
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=thepiratebay [google.com]
Interesting that it stops showing suggestions once "game of" is typed. It shortens everything to "game thrones sXXeYY" or "game thrones season X episode Y".
The suggestions are pretty limited too. These are likely culled from popular searches, and only a certain amount of suggestions are displayed per domain. Game of Thrones has been one of the top pirated shows, so it makes the search cut. And because this feature was just rolled out, every piracy related term (especially searches with the season and episode number) avoids the filter that applies to regular google search boxes. Searching "game thrones" on google instant shows just "game of thrones", "game of thrones season X" and "game of thrones wiki".
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday October 09 2014, @03:41PM
Doesn't Google drop prepositions anyway? In which case "game thrones" would be the post-parsed version.
From the people-who-do-Ask-Jeeves-queries-in-full-English-sentences department
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday October 09 2014, @03:44PM
Google went down the ask jeeves rabbit hole years ago and becomes less useful every time they update.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday October 09 2014, @04:59PM
Just try it. Open google.com and type "game of thrones". It auto suggests strings starting with "game of thrones". But the TPB in-results search box has suggestions starting in "game thrones". It could be a clue to why it's not being filtered. Who knows.
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(Score: 2) by SlimmPickens on Thursday October 09 2014, @07:31PM
queries-in-full-English-sentences department
Exactly, pb doesn't handle that, and it's the same department that "navigates by search"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 09 2014, @02:35PM
What is this "google" thing? I vaguely remember a branch of some US government agency being named that, but surely that can not be it.
(Score: 2) by bryan on Thursday October 09 2014, @06:55PM
More information on the "Rich Snippets" feature in Google sitelinks (minus TPB talk): https://developers.google.com/webmasters/richsnippets/sitelinkssearch [google.com]
(Score: 1) by LukeSkywalker on Thursday October 09 2014, @07:58PM
Why would anybody want to hand over there Pirate Bay searches to Google in the first place? They are going to collect, analyze and collate that information with everything else they know about you in order to sell it, or hand over to the government.
(Score: 1) by pnkwarhall on Thursday October 09 2014, @10:44PM
...because TPB on-site search is horrible?
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