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…
92 User Comments
Amanajeh
I wasn't believin' …then I tryed…
and is SO TRUE!
I tryed all the ways he listed…
Im from Brazil and google is doing this to torrent users for REAL!
Damm…¬¬
Suggymoto
And yet Google Reader will still quite happily recommend torrent related posts. Odd.
Dufusut
Well, if you are not lazy and type out the full word (bittorrent), then google will give you the results and suggestions.
Bill
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.
Amy
That is quite possibly the worst graphic I have ever seen. Did you want people to read it and understand it, or did you just want to punch people in the brain with poor design? AND WHY IS IT STARTING TO TILE?
Josh
My issue with this is that as far as i know Google doesn’t filter words in context. They just filter words.
So in some cases it may make sense to filter “Meth”
They can’t really filter “kidnap” or “steal” those are very common words.
And it’s not like they are filtering “bittorrent” from their search, their filtering form their auto complete.
I think it’s meant more as a deterrent, If you don’t see ‘ironman torrent” maybe you will be less likely to download it. While if you are going to search “Ironman torrent” anyway auto complete really doesn’t matter.