Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Internet news: Google starts censoring search from piracy sites
Earlier this month, Google has decided to filter "piracy-related" terms from suggestions. What that means is that you won't actually be given results with their "instant search" if you start typing in words like "torrent", "pirate bay", "bit torrent", etc etc. I find that this is quite baseless for reasoning behind it. They weren't pressured legally, even though I wouldn't be surprised if they were pressured by the MAFIAA (no, not the gangsters! I mean the MPAA and the RIAA).
How can users get around this?! Oh yeah, it's quite easy actually. All you have to do is actually press enter. This only affects suggestions and instant search. So if you know what you're looking for, it's just an extra keystroke away. I find these types of websites invaluable to the denizens of the internet (not just for piracy) and I hate to actually see Google do evil by censoring them and trying to be the "big brother of the net".