NDM Post 15

Google says latest search changes will 'visibly affect' piracy site rankings

This article focuses of the previous claim on Google stating that they haven't done enough to stop piracy site from being at the top of the sites. They (Google) promised in 2012 that piracy sites will be demoted in the rankings on the list but however no significant change was seen. Now in 2014 Google states that the piracy fights report has been updated and published. Googles Senior Copyright Counsel Katherine Oyama said Google has been testing new ad formats that show links to legal digital music and video services when people search using the keywords including download, free and watch and removing terms from its autocomplete feature if they "return results with many DMCA demoted sites.

- Oyama did not give details on which sites are being demoted, or by how much their demotions will affect their rankings

- How Google Fights Piracy report, which was originally launched in September 2013 as a defence against claims by music and film 

- Google promised to put the piracy report in 2012 but failed to do so

Google should have put the piracy report to use a long time ago as it means between the time that Google stated they would do so and the present Film institutions have lost millions and would essentially effect the ratings and states determining how well the film would have done in sales and revenue.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/20/google-search-changes-piracy-rankings