Google’s war against torrents is being kept quiet. No announcements. No press releases. You will only find the story in blogs that are carefully watched.
In essence, Google is removing keywords from their Suggest and Instant results so that they are no longer recommended when people start typing them. If you continue all the way through on a term such as “BitTorrent,” Google will offer the results. Reluctantly. They won’t help you out at all, even if you type all the way to the “n.” Try typing in “BitTorren” without the last “t” into Google.
Apparently, they have no idea what you’re talking about.
It’s their search and they’ve made their choice. The funny part is that something as relatively harmless as downloading torrents is considered taboo on Google, but there are plenty of other more harmful searches that Google is all too willing to recommend…
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empire
This is totally bogus. If I type “bittorrent” it gives me suggestions. If I type “torrent” it gives me suggestions. If I type “utorrent” it gives me suggestions. Are you complaining because they won’t give you suggestions on misspellings? Shame on you, find something else to meaninglessly target,
alexa
They aren’t saying you can’t search the word, they are saying Google won’t auto complete anything with those words in it because corporations are threatening to sue if they do.
Soup Physics
You are clearly retarded. What you just wrote is not even related to what this article is about.
RAD
Not true. I just googled bittorrent form google and with chrome and got this:
About 76,000,000 results (0.14 seconds)
Search Results
BitTorrent
Free, open source file-sharing application effective for distributing very large software and media files. Documentation, FAQ, search-engine.
http://www.bittorrent.com/ – Cached – Similar
Get BitTorrent
Download
Directory Index of Downloads
What Is BitTorrent? | BitTorrent
Got BitTorrent | BitTorrent
BitTorrent Users
Open Source
BitTorrent DNA
More results from bittorrent.com »
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Get BitTorrent | BitTorrent
The new BitTorrent 6 for Windows brings together BitTorrent’s proven …
http://www.bittorrent.com/btusers/download – Cached
What Is BitTorrent? | BitTorrent
BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the …
http://www.bittorrent.com/btusers/what-is-bittorrent – Cached – Similar
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Soup Physics
Seriously, how is it possible to be as retarded as you, and all the other morons who didn’t AT ALL get what this article was about.
It’s really simple and there is nothing that can be misunderstood.
He never said one thing about google not showing you torrent results you moron.
epynephrin
Those are fairly suspicious, but in Google’s defense searching for “Bittorrent” (and pressing ‘enter’) does return results. It did correct “Bitorren” and came up with Bittorrent for the first result under “bitt” as a search.
Just doing the devil’s advocate thing.
Guaranteed SEO
This is very sad. We are more concerned about digital copyrights of corporate empires, rather than basic humanitarian and ethical principals. I’m really looking forward to the political and economic changes happening right now, perhaps some time in the near future we will have a sensible political system (in the US) that is not sponsored by the corporate world and is not solely focused on pressuring other entities (eg. Google) to implement policies for the benefit of corporate empires
Optamizm
Hahaha! Yeah right, like that’s going to happen…
Soup Physics
That is the problem.
And the common person doesn’t even notice how their basic human rights and privacy rights are being violated, for no other reason, than rich companies with people in powerful positions, doing so because they can.
tehk
Your article does have one thing going for it: nice picture. Otherwise, like the other readers said, its a bogus load of crap. Perhaps maybe you should work for TechCrunch 🙂