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Google now removing over 1.5 million URLs/wk from search DB

Google is now removing over 1.5 million URLs/wk from search DB due to DMCA takedown requests.
»torrentfreak.com/google-url-take···-120824/

During the week starting August 13, Google received takedown requests for 1,496,220 URLs, up 35% on the record set just two weeks earlier and a huge 1,137% increase over the 131,577 URL takedowns requested August 8 2011.

Google says that during the last four weeks it was asked by 1,825 copyright owners and 1,406 anti-piracy reporting organizations to remove 5,733,402 URLs across 32,545 domains, truly huge numbers which on recent trends look likely to increase.

At this rate people who used to use Google to find copyright protected music & movies of recent vintage to illegally download will be out of luck.
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Uh, they will use a different search engine? Knowing how many false or marginal DCMA claims are filed, everyone else will have to as well. Google Fiber and Google Auto better catch on, because Search is dying.

I ask this not rhetorically but honestly since I would like to find alternatve search engines.

Which search engines exist that give decent results besides google or bing that are not powered by two companies? Only two I can think of is Baidu and Yandex. Baidu I don't think yet has an english language version. And Yandex is honestly not all that great.

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One thing I have learned (from being around since BEFORE the damned internet), is not one thing popular connected to the internet can actually be expected to be worth anything to the internet past 5 years.

And I suppose that means Google and anything with the word Google in the description of whatever it is being referred to.

I have lost track of the number of supposed must have or must use options online. And that includes search engine/programs/services.

If Google is around this time next year fine, if Google rolls over and dies thus joining so many other that have done so, equally fine.

There WILL be a replacement, and that is likely the only real true fact of the internet.

I recall when everyone just had to have a web page, or an online journal, or a blog, or My Space. I am enjoying the crap out of Netflix and I don't mind Facebook, but I don't really expect them to remain long.

Either technology will make them fizzle, or something neater will arrive. It's just no one can know what it will be.

I actually never thought I would stop wanting a web page, now I couldn't really care. I didn't reeeeeally expect to have a spindle of blank discs ever last more than a year. And I sure never saw my wife agreeing to Netflix being so easy actually.

I like Google, but most of the time, I am just using it for lazy things like math to be honest. I don't reeeeeally need it as a means to steal. We usually already know where to find the 'stuff'. Too bad if you are a newb and don't.

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There is a flip side to your out of luck argument. Google will lose those users that did rely on their search engine for that. This is great news for other search engines. You have to remember that switching search engines isn't as hard as say... Switching providers.
This behavior is the sort of thing that will slowly benefit startups outside the US. So I guess it's a good thing google is now censoring the web if you are their competitor.

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