February 21, 2013
Six Months Later – A Report Card on Google’s Demotion of Pirate Sites
“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. This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily—whether it’s a song previewed on NPR’s music website, a TV show on Hulu or new music streamed from Spotify.” – Amit Singhal, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Google, August 10, 2012
