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Re:Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More by artursapek on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @08:20PM (#3272574)
Recently I noticed that Google Chrome has a custom search built in for what.cd (a huge, exclusive music sharing website). When logged in, typing in the URL "what.cd" and hitting space brings up "Search What.CD Artists:" Autocomplete also continues to suggest "what.cd faq" as the first result for "what."

It makes sense though. What.CD is a tacit community, much less known about than any of the more "mainstream" file-sharing networks mentioned in this article. I wonder if Google is consciously just leaving it alone because reckons it can afford to. This move is no doubt a PR move and a legal precaution (understandably). It's just funny how they've been selective against the public networks.

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Re:Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More by murz on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @08:45PM (#3272633)
Chrome adds sites that you visit to your list of search engines [1]. It's not built in.. typing in what.cd and hitting space does nothing for me.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/276069/google-chrome-automati...

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Re:Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More by artursapek on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @10:50PM (#3272962)
Whoops, you're right. My bad
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