Google Censoring Torrent Search Suggestions: 7 Terrible Things They Don’t Censor
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…
please do the world a favor and never use papyrus again…
If they want to curb piracy, they should censor “warez”, “rom”, “crack”, “keygen”, and others. Because typing the name of a popular game all too often has a rom of the game on its suggest list. Then youngsters will learn that you can get the game for free, and then new pirates will be born.
sad
I have always loved google and still do but I can’t condone their decision while so many other things are not censored. There should be no censorship at all. Google bending to the will of the MPA and the RIAA is disappointing and has made me switch to another search engine. Sure they don’t care what I think and many others may would say well if you are not going to use google search you should stop using all their products. Maybe that will happen in time, for now, just the search engine. Consumers vote for what they want with their dollars and in this case, its with their default home page and search engine.
Google also have Google TV.. and in a way the torrent censoring will support Google TV because lots of torrent are also movies and tv shows.