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: 1) by GeminiDomino on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:56PM
Has ixquick sorted out their performance issues yet? I started using it after scroogle was killed off, but it was just horribly slow (I'm 30-45 second page loads) when it didn't timeout outright. Now I bounce between DDG and qrobe.it, but I'm still more than willing to give ixquick a spot in the rotation.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
(Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday February 28 2014, @06:27AM
Dunno, I don't recall ever seeing that sort of load times when my own connection wasn't flaky. (Then again, my connection was frequently flaky around that time period...)