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Pirate Bay's results removed from search results  (View post)

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Friday, October 2, 2009
14 years ago4,369 views

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/google_removes_pirate_bay_homepage/

DPic [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Nuuuu! Dx

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Google should be neutral. It shouldn't be up to them to hide a site from people. I know that directly targeting TPB has no effect, but this is just wrong.

Also if Google wants to give the most relative results possible, what percentage of people searching for "TPB" want information on ThinkPad Buttons? :P

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Thank you Juha-Matti

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

it's back, now

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

and it was an accident

MarWi [PersonRank 3]

14 years ago #

Now ThePirateBay seems down, though....

DPic [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

<<Now ThePirateBay seems down, though....>>

Well *that's* nothing uncommon haha

MarWi [PersonRank 3]

14 years ago #

Yep and it's back up...as usual ;)

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10366805-93.html

1)
"The Pirate Bay was down across the U.S. for at least three hours on Friday, an outage that comes as the site's latest bandwidth provider comes under pressure from entertainment companies.
..."

and

2)
"Earlier on Friday, Google stopped indexing The Pirate Bay but later acknowledged it booted the site from its search results by mistake.
...
Later, Google updated it's statement: "The removal appears to be an internal error and not part of a DMCA request.""

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

And http://torrentfreak.com/chased-from-sweden-pirate-bay-sails-to-ukraine-091002/

"...
On the heels of several rumors today, Patrik said he could confirm news of the move, saying that he believes The Pirate Bay is now hosted in Ukraine.
..."

Above 11 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,

Libran Lover [PersonRank 4]

14 years ago #

This sucks! It is one thing to remove a copy-right video from Youtube. It is infinitely more serious to f- around with search results... even by mistake.

Alex Ksikes [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

technical issue: Google does not want to get its ass sued.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Related:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-relocates-to-a-nuclear-bunker-091006/

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Do you think you can sue Google if your site is removed from the search results?

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