This seems like it would be relatively easy to abuse. Throw a bunch of pirate links on your competitor's comment page over a holiday weekend, or something, and suddenly they don't show up in searches anymore.

add some to sites.google.com, see how they like them apples.

Since they already treat their own sites differently I bet nothing would happen.

My God, hehe. You came up with that really quick.

It was my first thought on reading the article, also. Programming teaches you to have a lot of respect for how things can go wrong.

Headline leaves out a pertinent detail:

>... in Russia...

Which makes it even more relevant, as western search engines have already been thoroughly censored.

That's not really accurate. I have a few modest Indie PC games for sale and I still need to remove dozens of torrent links every few months from Google, often for the same sites over and over again (just with a slight URL variation).

Google should just de-list well-known torrent sites completely.

Implying non-Western search engines haven't been thoroughly censored already?

Well I know that when I'm searching for say torrents or cracks, Google and DDG (Bing) are absolute trash while Yandex returns useful links to assorted forums. I have no idea how sparse those results have become (heck I can't even read the language most of the time), but I know they continue to have at least some results whereas the western ones seem to have been thoroughly cleansed.

Yeah remember astalavista? Such a thing would be unthinkable now.

For who doesn't know it, it was a search engine for cracks and serial numbers. The name was a pun on altavista which was one of the first search engines for the web.

I think my response was speaking more broadly about censorship, not just specifically about torrenting.

Is that anything besides whataboutism? While I'd love it if our society could straightforwardly rely on uncensorable systems, if two centralized systems censor disjoint sets of material that's a workable state of affairs.

Your nit feels analogous to people criticizing Snowden for needing to flee to Russia. Despite Russia engaging in totalitarianism (like every other country), pragmatically they can help us mitigate our own country's totalitarianism. Thus even as a foreigner looking in, it's directly disappointing to see the content cartels firm up their grasp in another sovereign state.

>Is that anything besides whataboutism?

Sure! The way you worded your initial response was so broad that it implied that non-Western search engines aren't censored, and all I did was seek to clarify whether or not that was what you were saying. There's no "whataboutism" to simply seeking to understand a statement someone is making, nor do I disagree with the broader sentiment that you make at the end of the post I'm replying to now.

Search engines can control economic activity, there are so many ways to get at people now.

There is no way there is less than 100 pirated links somewhere on facebook.com.

And leaving out the FAANGs from this rule would be blatantly anti-competitive.

Looks like Facebook will not only have to exit Europe, but Russia too!

My first thought was "YouTube". It's absolutely chock-full of pirated content.

>There is no way there is less than 100 pirated links somewhere on facebook.com.

Facebook content is not indexed by search engines anyway.

Yes it is.

vk.ru is the one and only warez site you need in russia... and even in the west. If you lost the files to the font you licensed just search "Fontxyz site:vk.ru" and you get it same goes for basically anything else.

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Can someone change the title to:

“Yandex, Mail.ru Group, and Rambler will deindex domains that have 100 links to pirated content starting September 2022”

I wonder if that database of censored URLs is floating around anywhere. If you had it you could set up a dark search engine just based on those. Yandex will do all the crawling for you. The Russian mafia has probably thought of this already.

So, are they going to ban youtube as well?

so... 99piratelinks.ru ?

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