Google Will Begin Filtering Search Results Based On Copyright Complaints

[demmiblue]

Source: TPM

Google on Friday announced that beginning next week, Google Search will begin filter results based on “valid” copyright complaints. Websites that receive a high number of complaints will be pushed down lower and further back in Google’s search results. As Google explained about the new policy in a blog post:

Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results.

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/google-will-begin-filtering-search-results-based-on

Original Google blog post: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-update-to-our-search-algorithms.html

[MADem]

1. So what are they saying, here? Google something you want to rip off and then go straight to page

ten to get it?

Like this will stop kids....!

It may drive them to sites other than Google....

[Poll_Blind]

2. What a set up for Righthaven, Round Two!

Think about it in terms of how a copyright troll could use this against sites like DU. Not just for news stories but for accompanying imagery, like photos. "Valid" is pretty damned murky, IMO, and if Google's version of "valid" is any less stringent than the letter of the law allows, then there will simply be abuse.

Pretty fucked, IMO.

PB

[Lint Head]

3. Heck, I'll just go to the last page and search backward.

[eShirl]

4. eShirl will begin using a different default search engine

[ManiacJoe]

5. Something seems a little off.

Why would anyone send an infringement notice to Google when it needs to go to the ISP hosting the infringement?

Sure, if the host is YouTube, but that is not the way any of the articles are written.