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- borget, on 10/10/2007, -11/+103Why would Google filter torrents, and keep dozens of child pornography links, and other horrors online ? I don't understand :(
- lemonsensation, on 10/10/2007, -30/+111It was inevitable that this day would come. The "Do No Evil" motto is no more.
- griz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+63Question is, how do you know there are still Child Porn links?
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -5/+50What happened to "free access to all the information in the world" or whatever they said?
- bagelpirate, on 10/10/2007, -5/+46Who the hell uses google to find torrents anyway?
- rabidmonkey1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+43thepiratebay.org
g2p.org
...amongst many other that I don't think I need to mention here. There is always someone else to take the place if google should decide to censor its results.
...honestly, why would you use google to search for torrents anyway? Still, it's sad to see this happening. The DMCA needs to go. - davotoula, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35Because in the case of torrents the media owner notifies Google according to the DMCA.
It's sad but it seems as if *fake* claims of loss of money matters and has higher priority in the legal system than the more serious issues you mentioned. - MikeonTV, on 10/10/2007, -5/+32They can remove them all. I have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2755
- DjDimitrious, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28filetype:torrent query.
Can still search for them. - chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23The are promoting censorship. That sounds pretty ***** up to me and should do to anyone who remembers the Google of past.
- CalmLlama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Once a search engine starts to filter, it starts to die. I wonder which will be next?
- AlexFerny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20a torrent is just a hash code, there is nothing illegal contained within a .torrent file.
- polyGone, on 10/10/2007, -5/+22Not all torrents are illegal.
- feckineejit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15mininova.org
- Devrdander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12because its easy to filter out sites with links containing .torrent files versus jpg's or gifs...
- sundancekid503, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Actually Google's cooperation with China has been worse than clubbing seals. Google has no problem being evil for the right price.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11People who can't find what they're looking for on their favorite trackers.
- MagnumVP, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Not everything on torrents is illegal and falls under the MPAAor RIAA rules and guidlines. Next thing you'll see is Google blocking everything but htm, html, php, asp, xml docks. When will it end???
- MEGAMERICAN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11It has less to do with Google going against their creed and more to do with the DMCA being a terrible law.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12booooooooo
- sandfish, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I think your missing the point, KnightMareInc...
- Devrdander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9You realize g2p.org uses google?
- brklynmark, on 10/10/2007, -7/+16How exactly would you know that it has dozens of child porn links?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13Censorship at its best, like china. At least we can still read about tiananmen square
- Fl4sh, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13Google is full of tools.
- tnvwboy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Big business bought themselves laws that makes it difficult for Google to continue without putting all their systems at risk. Businesses and lawmakers either don't care or don't understand enough about what Google is trying to do. They can't go after the people that are putting this stuff up illegally so they are going to target the mediums that infringing content is found on. It's already been happening on YouTube, no shock that it'd happen to a technology that, while perfectly legal and useful, tends to be viewed as a path to illegal downloads.
- sleepykit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8It's not so much the filtering as the "do no evil" motto. If you plan to act exactly like every other search engine than damn well admit it. Claiming to be high and mighty and then putting up things like this ruins Google's image more than anything.
- merreborn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7PROTIP: If you actually click on the "read the DMCA complaint" link, it includes the URL that google was asked to remove.
So you can still get all the search results. You just have to go though an extra click for the ones that have been DMCA'd - john2kx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9http://www.torrentz.com is the google of torrent searching.
- sroske, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6as of right now, searching for "superman movie torrent" returned hits from mininova and isohunt as well as plenty of others. this doesn't seem very accurate to me.
- raptordrew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You'd be amazed - if I can't find anything on any trackers I check, I'll google it, and sometimes I hit paydirt.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11Google needs to grow some nuts, they have already destroyed youtube. I think google would remove their own logo if someone emailed them and said their company logo uses the same colors
- CalmLlama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You know that a lot of companies use torrent to advertise their products. Where do you think all those pre-release fall pilots came from?
- directsun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5gee, if only Google were some kind of social bookmarking site and we could just spam them with the information they took down until they yield. hmmmmm.
- sundancekid503, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The location equals big $$$ for Google. It's all about the money.
- BlackCow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You said google is just following laws in response to them blocking torrents. So you were saying torrents were illegal.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What do you mean "if" you could? Haven't you ever seen the Google hacks that pull up SSN's and Credit Card numbers? I was able to find my own.
- thenativeraver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4*****.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=bourne+ultimatum+filetype:torrent&spell=1 - Arctirus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5True, there are much better ways to find torrents than google but that's not the point.
- brundlefly76, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Want to hear something worse? Some copyright holders have started to send DMCA takedown messages not to the offending websites individually. but to GOOGLE instead, listing all the offending sites.
If the website isnt on Google's radar (say, a Yahoo! or a Digg.com), there is a lot of suspicion that Google's response is to shank the sites search engine results, effectively shutting down the site. But of course, SERP positioning is so secret and nebulous these websites have little evidence for a court case against Google.
Whats more, the target websites in some cases arent even sent a copy of the DMCA, so as far as they know, nothing even happened.
So, if you have a website you dont like, go ahead and send Google a DMCA notice and tell them to shut it down!
I actually cant wait until a new search engine knocks Google down like they did Yahoo!, there is absolutely nothing of value to the Internet by having a monolithic search engine.
Anyone have any good tips on the up-and-comers? - Drood, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I've been wary of Google for at least 3 years now. All the information they store (our mail, our chats, our search histories etc...) Slowly but surely my paranoia is being justified. Anyone who searches Google for torrents is an idiot, but the larger picture, especially the Chinese censorship... "Do no evil"... Yeah, right.
- archlich, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How did they destroy youtube? You realize that it was already in the cross hairs for dmca violations. Google took up the company BECAUSE they wanted to inherit their lawsuits for everyone. The DMCA is unjust, we know this, google knows this too. They want to set a precedent to allow online video sites to show clips under fair use.
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4For the billionth time... TORRENTS AREN'T ILLEGAL and contain no copyrighted material.
- nakani, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2.
- zues, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Buried as inaccurate, Just look
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=DAL&q=index+of+.torrent&btnG=Search - zephc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Who uses google to search for torrents anyway? Any torrent site worth its salt has built-in search functionality.
- GiggleStick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://www.google.com/search?q=kernel+filetype%3Atorrent
Seems to find torrents. - Langford, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4The internet is big. Sites are added in bulk by computer. Sites are removed by hand after complaints. The RIAA and MPAA complained about torrents, so torrents were removed.
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just a correction, everyone is misquoting Google's unofficial motto. It's "Don't be Evil", not "Do No Evil".
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Google was the only search engine to take the US government to court when they requested one million "anonymous" web searches in the name of protecting the children. Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL gladly handed over these records without flinching. Google won the lawsuit which deemed the government's request to be unconstitutional, so the other search companies handed over YOUR private information for nothing.
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