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Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by yemkay on Thursday January 27, 2011 @04:29AM (#2147243)
This is evil. They should rather tweak their algorithm instead of blacklisting phrases?
Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by jacquesm on Thursday January 27, 2011 @05:12AM (#2147319)
Nonsense. They are perfectly within their rights to not suggest that people behave in ways that are against the law.

You may not like that it is against the law in many places but (1) legally aggressive companies don't like other companies suggesting their stuff gets pirated and google is a much juicier target than John Doe, (2) it would not help google if Jane Doe brought up google suggesting she download a torrent when she was doing a search to buy the album if Justin Bieber and pirated it instead.

This is just a sound business decision by google, not evil.

Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by mwg66 on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:20AM (#2147414)
I don't agree. A simple keyword match does not determine if a keyword result is suggesting that I break the law in any given region. "Ubuntu torrent" being a prime example of this.
Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by jacquesm on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:21AM (#2147418)
As soon as you've completed the word 'torrent' a whole slew of suggestions pops up.
Re:Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More by mwg66 on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:26AM (#2147428)
That is correct but the original point still stands.