Google reports on "serious progress" in the fight against piracy

In December 2010, Google declared war on piracy and identified four ways to combat the “global evil”: 1) responding within 24 hours to a request from rights holders to remove content from blogs on the Blogger platform and from Google search results; 2) deletion of the words “torrent” and other terms from the autocompletion of search queries; 3) removal from the AdSense program of all doubtful sites close to piracy; 4) improving the visibility of licensed content in search results.

Now it's time to report on the results . Google Walk General Counsel and Vice President Kent Walker notes that "significant progress has been made on each of the four points." Thus, the average time to remove content from search results for DMCA requests is now significantly less than 24 hours. To increase the visibility of licensed content in search results, the Music Rich Snippets feature has been launched. Thanks to auto-fill filtering, the number of pirated search queries in the search engine also decreased significantly (see chart).


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Work in these areas will continue.