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Google Downranking The Pirate Bay Searches

posted by Cactus on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
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: 3, Informative) by SMI on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:34PM

    by SMI (333) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @09:34PM (#7574)

    I can't speak re: popular email and social networking sites (ie., Google and Facepalm), as I avoid them like the plague, but I can tell you that I've never had any problems with HttpsEverywhere. If your issues were more than a few months ago, maybe try again? I doubt that such an issue would be allowed to simmer very long...

    Furthermore, you might look into changing rulesets [eff.org].

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  • (Score: 1) by darnkitten on Friday February 28 2014, @03:06AM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:06AM (#8232)

    Thanks. It has been a while. I'll have to test it on one or two of the machines and see what happens.

    I can't speak re: popular email and social networking sites (ie., Google and Facepalm), as I avoid them like the plague...

    Me too, but most of the patrons who come in to use the public computers are just there to use FB or other social sites. I never see the problems until the patrons trigger them.

    • (Score: 2) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @03:13AM

      by SMI (333) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:13AM (#8237)

      "I never see the problems until the patrons trigger them."

      I understand completely.