nsane.forums Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Google's recently announced efforts to cut down the search results for websites that have pirated content have raised questions on how searches for YouTube videos will be affected. On Friday, Google announced that starting next week, it would lower the search results generated by websites if they have a large amount of valid copyright removal notices. It's an effort that was created in part to stop the idea that Google encourages copyright violations in order to generate high search results, and make some money via ads in the process. Now some are questioning how Google's new search paradigm will affect one of the company's own divisions, YouTube. SearchEngineLand.com points out that there are a ton of videos on the site that violate copyrights and frequently turn up in Google's search results. It brings up an example with Saturday Night Live's recent Downton Abby spoof, which was quickly uploaded on YouTube after it aired on NBC live on the East Coast (It didn't appear on the taped West Coast feed and it never appeared officially on the SNL website). YouTube links to the video later showed up in Google's search results, often ahead of websites that hosted the "pirated" video themselves. YouTube also has its own copyright dispute forums, separate from those used by Google. While the video remains unavailable if such a request is granted, the page is still posted and can still appear in Google's search results. When asked, Google's response to the questions raised by the SearchEngineLand.com article is, "We’re treating YouTube like any other site in search rankings. That said, we don’t expect this change to demote results for popular user-generated content sites." We will soon see if Google demotes its own YouTube videos from search results next week. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 12, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 12, 2012 ...That said, we don’t expect this change to demote results for popular user-generated content sites." In other words. Big earners are left alone and small sites will be punished. Great. Hypocrites. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Google will have no choice but to make MORE PEOPLE SUFFER from a great deal of stupidity. The bad thing is that this is all slave training. All people will be sent through the totalitarian tip-toe and will be taught to adopt the new way of the Internet where freedom of expression and freedom of speech is stiffled and illigal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x3r0 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Next thing you know, you'll wake up and search in Google and you'll find all the result sites are 'please fill in survey before viewing' sites. I've already switched to DuckDuckGo for general search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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