Google's Not Bitter About BitTorrent Anymore | TechTree.com

Google's Not Bitter About BitTorrent Anymore

Torrents are back on the world's most popular search website.

 

Uh-Oh here comes trouble! (Or not) After two years of being off the Google's auto-complete search list, BitTorrent and uTorrent are back as bona fide suggestions.

Both the technologies were incorrectly listed under Google's filter as supporting piracy, and were therefore off the auto-complete suggestion list of Google. However, the search results were not blocked.

Since then BitTorrent and uTorrent have been cleaning up their public images, with BitTorrent's Vice President of marketing Matt Mason clearly stating on his blog,“We don't host infringing content. We don't point to it. It's literally impossible to 'illegally download something on BitTorrent... To pirate stuff, you need more than a protocol. You need search, a pirate content site, and a content manager. We offer none of those things. If you're using BitTorrent for piracy, you're doing it wrong".

So did Google change their policies?
Apparently not. Google squarely responded saying this was not a result of policy changes, but rather just changes and updates in their algorithms as reported by searchengineland.

Which other sites are in bad graces of Google?
Obviously, piracy-related sites such as ThePirateBay and user-abused sites such as RapidShare and MegaUpload have been banned from Google's auto-complete suggestions.

While Google may have understood the difference between BitTorrent protocols and actual piracy-related torrent sites, we're having a hard time convincing our adamant rule-enforcing IT guy Alpesh about the difference. Sigh!

(Via Torrentfreak)


TAGS: Internet, Google

 
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