Is Google Filtering Out Torrents?
TorrentFreak is reporting that Google has started filtering torrents out of its search results. Google says the filtering began in response to DMCA complaints.The owner of SumoTorrent told TorrentFreak that he discovered that A search on Google for sumotorrent now triggers the following message at the bottom of the results page:If you search for Torrentspy on Google you do get the " In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org." message. However, if you follow the link to ChillingEffects.org it says "The notice is not available." Chilling Effects is supposed to be a clearinghouse for cease-and-desist notices but this particular notice appears to be missing or incorrectly linked.
"In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org."
A search for other BitTorrent sites like Torrentspy and Torrentreactor comes up with the same message (note. the sites are still indexed but some results are removed). Strangely enough, for torrentreactor it only shows up for a search on the .com domain.
TorrentFreak did find one interesting torrent-related DMCA notice (see here) about a Paris Hilton video sent to Google by Jim Salomon, the brother of a guy who dated Paris Hilton.
Tags: google | google-search
Posted on August 8, 2007
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