Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by trendia on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:58PM (#17431565)

Source?

Wouldn't these people need to be specifically from the search team, and not Google in general (which would have almost no control over search)

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by stcredzero on Saturday June 30, 2018 @01:25PM (#17431705)

Google keeps on demoting sites in search for doing certain things. In the past, this has largely been good. This stance against piracy and the stance that YouTube has taken against the principles of free speech mark a trajectory I find disturbing.

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by stingraycharles on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:12PM (#17431935)

Going from “their stance against piracy” to “socially engineer everyone for better using their power” is quite a leap and strikes me as overly dramatic / FUD.

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by kodablah on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:08PM (#17432752)

It was very clear that one was about what a contingent in the company believes and another is about what the company does. It strikes me as quite the leap and overly dramatic to compare specific quotes about different things just because they're in the same thread.

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by pdelbarba on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:11PM (#17431927)

I see it as a concerning second phase to citizens united. Give corporations virtually unlimited influence and watch as they also find ways of capping everyone else's influence. Google sticks you into your (their) filter bubble and Facebook performs the social equivalent to gerrymandering on their platform. WCGW?

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