Google has quietly expanded its list of censored search phrases with the addition of The Pirate Bay’s domain names

Posted: 2012/09/11 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Google, New Business Models, Online advertising, Stats / reports, Tech Evolution

The blacklist prevents popular keywords from appearing in Google’s Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed. Although Google understands that there is no silver bullet to stop online copyright infringement, the search giant is convinced that the steps they’ve taken could help to decrease piracy and possibly also advertising revenue flowing to the illegal Pirate Bay file sharing platform.

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http://torrentfreak.com/google-adds-pirate-bay-domains-to-censorship-list-120910/

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