Google Removes ‘BitTorrent’ From Piracy Search Filter
To reduce online piracy Google has implemented several changes to its search engine in recent years. Among other things, the search engine blacklisted dozens of piracy-related terms from appearing in its Autocomplete and Instant services. Both ‘BitTorrent’ and ‘uTorrent’ were included from the start, but TorrentFreak has learned that Google recently unbanned these keywords, resulting in a sharp increase in search traffic.
For two years Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘ services.
Google users searching for terms like “The Pirate Bay”, “RapidShare” and “isoHunt” will notice that no suggestions or search results appear before they type in the full word. While no webpages are removed from Google’s index, there is sharp decrease in searches for these terms.
What triggers a keyword to be included in the blacklist is not clear. A Google spokesperson told TorrentFreak two months ago that they remove terms that are “closely associated with piracy” without providing further details.
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