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: 3, Funny) by darnkitten on Wednesday February 26 2014, @08:55PM
No, it's just an added layer of personal protection. These firefox extensions, however, are designed to keep the "big G" from tracking you. Read the pages before installing, so you know what they do and with which other extensions they might conflict.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rem ove-google-tracking/?src=search [mozilla.org]o gle-privacy/?src=search [mozilla.org]o gle-no-tracking-url/?src=search [mozilla.org]- google-analytics/?src=search [mozilla.org]c /?src=search [mozilla.org]- cookie-for-google-search/?src=search [mozilla.org]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/go
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/go
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gd
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no
Also, StartPage [startpage.com] does anonymized Google searching, allowing its special/expert searches.