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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ShipIt on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:15PM
Google of all companies should remember the lesson of Yahoo! since they are the ones who supplanted them. Give users what they want, or they drop you for something better. See also: slashdot. The barrier to entry is absurdly low for the web compared to other industries.
(Score: 1) by ementaler on Wednesday February 26 2014, @11:56PM
True, altough I wouldn't compare it with Slashdot - an average user simply doesn't care that much, plus Google has become a social fact (Durkheim).