Google's fight on Warez

[Mr Happy]

So Google is changing it's search autocomplete to filter certain keywords associated with illegal downloads of music. For the moment it's only for it's autocomplete feature but this is basically the first step as the next will be to remove them from the results too.

It's all an attempt to prevent illegal downloads returning in search results. This is very very bad news for warez sites and particularly anyone who relies heavily on organic traffic.


Read the full story here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11900347

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.c...er-online.html

Mr Happy Reviewed by Mr Happy on 3rd Dec 2010. Google's fight on Warez So Google is changing it's search autocomplete to filter certain keywords associated with illegal downloads of music. For the moment it's only for it's autocomplete feature but this is basically the first step as the next will be to remove them from the results too. It's all an attempt to prevent illegal downloads returning in search results. This is very very bad news for warez sites and particularly anyone who relies heavily on organic traffic. Read the full story here Rating: 5

[Phozon]

well this sucks

[Arthur]

thats why I LOVE KATZ TRAFFIC

[Mr Happy]

thats why I LOVE KATZ TRAFFIC

You fool. Where do you think Katz get's a lot of it's traffic?

[Greeny]

thats why I LOVE KATZ TRAFFIC

Katz is good for bringing in traffic, but the traffic is usually poor quality because the users knows what they are doing, they come, grab their download, and leave, rarely visiting another page.

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However, it will not prevent sites that host illegal copyright material from appearing in its search results.

I believe Google will always stick to this rule, I hope.

[BlaZe]

Its really bad

[leonight]

adsense user also read this

They include a commitment to prevent Google ads being displayed on sites hosting illegal content, preventing the owner making money from them.

[WaReZ]

sad news.........

[-zAAz-]

sad (

[kiddo]

This is bad news. Imagine if they started this or Movies, Games, Apps and other stuff...Warez sites would start losing traffic gradually.