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Google Removing torrent Results, Open Source Search Engine Anyone?

August 10, 2007 at 8:26 am · Filed under Google, Search Engines

TorrentFreak has the story on Google censoring torrent search results. It’s nothing new, as Google has been removing results for years on the requsts of various media companies like the RIAA/MPAA etc.

Which brings me to my call for an open source, offshore (possibly) search engine that allows the community to determine what gets censored.


clipped from torrentfreak.com

Google Filters Torrents From Search Results

Google has been filtering its search results for years. That’s proven very useful for the Chinese government, and of course content owner representatives like the MPAA and RIAA. According to Google, the filtering of torrents from the search results is a response to the DMCA complaints they receive.

So, apparently one day Google decided that it is illegal in nearly every country of the world to host a .torrent file that (allegedly) links to infringing material. Strange, because there is no legal precedent for this decision in most countries.
Google Filters BitTorrent Sites

The owner of SumoTorrent told TorrentFreak that he discovered that A search on Google for sumotorrent now triggers the following message at the bottom of the results page:
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