Google Imposes New Penalty on Pirate Sites in Search Results
Important news about Google’s SEO changes that can affect pirate sites. Please do keep in mind that some media sites consider news and social aggregators to be pirates. That said this is just one more reason why it’s important when making pages here to keep your quoting of material fair, your attributions prominent, and your formatting proper per the pages guides.
In a move that’s likely to please copyright owners, Google announced it has taken new measure to punish sites that host pirated content by pushing them further down its search listings. The news came as part of a larger overview of the company’s anti-piracy efforts published on Friday as a blog post and in a report titled “How Google Fights Piracy.”
The report, which mirrors a similar one published a year ago, explains how Google’s algorithm will rely more heavily on repeat “takedown requests” by copyright owners as a signal to demote a site in its search rankings:
“In October 2014, we have improved and refined the DMCA demotion signal in search results, increasing the effectiveness of just one tool rightsholders have at their disposal,” says the report. Google sources confirmed that the statement reflects new measures to punish pirates in search results.
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