Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirate' URLs Last Year

Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by Scoundreller on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:09PM (#37375500)

I'm still miffed that when I search for "coronavirus" into Google, I seem to get hand-picked results about covid-19, which is just one of hundreds of coronaviruses.

The wikipedia entry (which is often first for most search results about generic topics) is on page 2 and still likes to their covid-19 entry, not the one on coronavirus genus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by 542458 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:52PM (#37375781)

With all due respect, I think 99+% of people who Google “coronavirus” are looking for info about Covid-19, and as such the results being about C19 is pretty reasonable imo. It’s like how if you Google “watergate” you’ll near-exclusively get stuff about the watergate scandal (because that’s what most people who search “watergate” are looking for), and not about booking at the watergate hotel or other amenities of the watergate complex.

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Re:Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirat... by Scoundreller on Sunday September 03, 2023 @11:59PM (#37377004)

The #1 result I get is the wiki link to the scandal.

The #2 result is the wiki for the complex.

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