Google has taken few new steps to remove all variations related to torrents from its Auto complete and Instant services. In December Google had announced that it would start filtering the terms closely related with piracy from its ‘Auto complete’ and ‘Instant services’ and today they are successfully running this feature. Google has started filtering the torrent files which provide illegal downloading of movies, music, games, software’s etc. Google has just filtered these sites from instant searches but yet their websites are displayed in the search results. Google has already filtered a list of keywords related to sex from its Auto complete feature and Instant services.
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The most shocking thing about this new filter is that the keywords are picked randomly. But these new filtered keywords do not affect the search results in anyways. They are just prevented to be displayed in the auto complete and instant services, when user enters a search query.
Banned: Bit Torrent clients such as uTorrent and Xunlei, cyber lockers such as RapidShare and Megaupload, versions of the word ‘torrent’.
Not Banned: BitTorrent clients such as BitComet and Vuze, prominent sites such as 4shared, HotFile and MediaFire, The Pirate Bay.
It may be seen that many sites like uTorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload, etc aren’t happy with this new filtration method. They feel Google is going down the wrong path. Even though Google has banned torrent related keywords from the instant searches yet the users can access the websites from the search results.
