Google has to remove eight 'pirate' links per second

For a long time, Google receives requests from copyright holders to remove pirate links from the search results. Captain Obvious tells us that pirate here should be considered as links that lead to resources that illegally distribute copyrighted content. So, it all started small, and now Microsoft have to remove a week for around 5 million such links. Anyway, that's the number of links removed from the SERPs for the last week of September this year (5.8 million links, and that is a record).

this means that removed about eight pirate links per second. Unfortunately, it is difficult to understand how the mechanism of consideration of applications of the right holders, and how the consideration with the subsequent removal. What is clear is that people with this volume of tasks would not have made it so that it runs a special algorithm, which we probably can "steer" manually.

But the algorithm of examination of applications we are not very interesting, much more interesting is the increased volume of requests of the right holders, compared to, for example, from last year. For example, for each week of October 2012, Google received from advertisers 1.8 million removal requests, which in turn, ten times more than in early 2012. In November of the same year the number of requests per week increased to 2.8 million by the end of the year this number increased up to 3.5 million.

As for this year, for the last week of September, the Corporation received requests to remove from 5407 holders who complained 37413 domains.

Via torrentfreak

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