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on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.
Fluffeh writes:
According to TorrentFreak, Google is downranking The Pirate Bay's website in its search results for a wide variety of queries, some of which are not linked to copyright-infringing content. Interestingly, the change mostly seems to affect TPB results via the Google.com domain, not other variants such as Google.ca and Google.co.uk.
It also seems that Google may only be downranking searches that are explicitly looking for copyright-infringing content, not searches that are simply looking for The Pirate Bay itself. It will be interesting to see whether this is a backhanded effort to appease the media companies, or a taste of things to come to all the Google domains.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by scruffybeard on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:03PM
The marketing pays for the stuff that supports the search capability.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tlezer on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:29PM
Yep, I get that, and I can accept seeing advertisements, just don't compromise the utility of the tool or you will soon find no one left to see your advertising.