The search game is changing as Google makes a concentrated effort to cut down on music piracy while simultaneously helping to promote legitimate download sites like Netflix and Google Play. In keeping with its transparent theme, Google spelled out some specific changes it's making (and has already made) to Search in an updated How Google Fights…
Google the search engine giant has had a lot of requests to exclude and "piracy sites" from the results. Google has been hit with over 30 million requests to take down URL's that contain copyrighted content from British Recorded Music Industry (BPI). Google denies many of these requests because BPI is mostly Spamming Google to…
Google and other advertisement companies have decided that sites that host pirated content will not be able to take advantage of advertisements from larger companies. Sites that host pirated content have a lot of traffic and also generate a lot of money from the adverts on theirs sites.
A study at The University of Southern…
There are a number of search providers that have recently been accused of funding piracy. Both Google and Yahoo are accused of funding pirate sites. While there is no way to tell that they are actually cutting a check to the individual pirate sites that have their ads on them it certainly does look very…