Google has to delete eight “pirated” links per second

For a long time, Google has been accepting requests from copyright holders for the removal of “pirated” links from search results. Captain Evidence suggests that links that lead to resources that illegally distribute copyrighted content should be considered “pirated” here. So, everything started out small, and now the corporation has to delete about 5 million such links a week. In any case, just as many links were removed from the search results for the last week of September of this year (5.8 million links, which is a record).

This means that about eight “pirated” links are deleted per second. Unfortunately, it is difficult to understand how the mechanism for reviewing applications of rights holders works, and how accurately the review takes place with subsequent deletion. It’s only clear that people wouldn’t have coped with such a volume of tasks, so a special algorithm works that you can probably “steer” manually.
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But the application review algorithm itself is not very interesting to us now, it is much more interesting to what extent the volume of requests of rights holders have grown, compared to, for example, last year. For example, for each week of October 2012, Google received 1.8 million deletion requests from advertisers, which, in turn, is ten times more than in early 2012. As early as November of the same year, the number of requests per week increased to 2.8 million, and by the end of the year, that number had grown up to 3.5 million.

As for this year, over the last week of September, the corporation received removal requests from 5,407 right holders, who complained about 37,413 domains.

Via torrentfreak