Requests for content delisting from Google Search results recently reached an unprecedented milestone, passing the six-billion mark and highlighting the company’s strong will to cooperate with rightsholders.
In a nutshell: Takedown requests from copyright holders have reached an all-time high of six billion URLs. So Google is working with content owners to blacklist rights-infringing websites before its algorithms can even index them. As a result, the search giant has removed billions of results linking to pirated materials.
Requests for content delisting from Google Search results recently reached an unprecedented milestone, passing the six-billion mark and highlighting the company’s strong will to cooperate with rightsholders. Mountain View regularly receives takedown orders on alleged pirate links from its earch index. Google grants the requests after a careful review of their validity.
Google’s policy on copyright infringement, as outlined on its Transparency Report page, is consistent with the infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and “provides a simple and efficient mechanism for copyright owners from countries/regions around the world.
