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Something important about Pirate Algorithm Update

Google first released the Pirate algorithm in August 2012 and rolled out a second major update to the algorithm in October 2014. The search engine algorithm focuses on tackling the huge problem of online copyright infringements. Websites that have been reported for copyright and have received adverse amounts of web page removal notices will be penalised. Allowing Google users to find quality, and legitimate information less of a challenge.

This algorithm has been designed around data received from website users and owners, who have reported websites for using content that falls into the category of infringement. However, it is important to consider that while some web pages may be demoted for adverse complaint signals, Google cannot remove said content unless a valid copyright ejection is received from the owner of the copyrighted material along with the rights.

Google recently made a change to their algorithm designed to demote major sites hosting pirated content, but the algorithm has a secondary side effect – bringing more visibility to smaller torrent sites that had been previously buried in the search results due to the more popular sites ranking so well.

The new algo takes the number of legitimate DMCAs filed against a site into account when ranking sites, with more DMCAs resulting in a lower ranking.  However, smaller sites hosting pirated content that weren’t at the top of the search results were not impacted as much as other more popular sites, as many companies focus only on the top ranking pirate sites when filing DMCAs.  This change could mean that companies will have to not only focus on the top ranking sites, but also the ones multiple pages deep in the search results to prevent them from showing up at the top later.

Google will notify a website owner of a content infringement via a DMCA take-down notice, the notice is sent to the website owners Webmaster Tools account. A DMCA will include details of infringing url(s) or in some cases a whole website.

Google provides a full transparency list of websites that have been reported for content infringements, which can be viewed here: Transparency Report

All websites that are reported to Google will be documented, allowing said data to be analyzed and used to configure the Pirate algorithm. A website with a high number of removal reports will usually be demoted on all searches across the Google search engine.

Google has kept making changes in its search engine algorithms to demote the most wicked pirate sites. One of the most renowned changes is an improved effort to make such sites less visible in search results, directly indicating that they will not appear in the initial search pages. Since 2012, Google has been running a down ranking system but is reported to lack effectiveness as per the copyright industry groups such as RIAA and MPAA.

Just last week, the giant has announced of the improved version that aims to address this comment/issue. With the updated version of ‘How Google Fights Piracy’ report that was originally introduced in 2013 for defending the claims by film and music copyright holders, Google seems to give an overview of all the efforts for fighting piracy as well as reveal the importance of responsibility of copyright holders for making the content available. The 26-page report delineates the following anti-piracy principles of Google:

• Defense against abuse
• Generation of better and more legitimate alternatives to keep piracy at bay
• Provision of transparency
• Funds monitoring, as Google believes that the most effective way to fight against online pirates is to reduce their money supply while prohibiting rogue sites from its ad and payment services
• Guarantee of effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability

Because this filter is regularly updated, the formerly influenced sites can manage to escape in case they have rectified the mistakes or made improvements. Well, at the same time, the filter is also capable of sensing new sites that managed to escape before as well as releasing ‘falsely caught sites’.

The update is just as other updates such as Penguin and allows processing all sites to catch any site appearing to be in violation. Once caught, the site is then stuck with a downgrade until they tend to get fewer or no complaints to get back into the race. However, since its day of introduction, the filter has never been rerun, which means a real pirate site along with new violators during this two years, which  need to be punished, might have managed to escape. This has perhaps made Google to finally update its Pirate Filter after two years!

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Who is affected by Googe Pirate Algorithm

Once Google’s Pirate Update was released back in 2012, which was created to penalize pirate sites, everybody stopped. Everyone wasn’t really sure what to do. How severe was the punishment for those running pirate sites? Are there really any lessons to be learned by other SEOs and marketers?

Every time Google rolls out a brand new algorithm update, it seems that there are quite a few people in the SEO world who goes crazy.  But it reminds me of being a student in high school all over again.  Every time there’s a new big project for a class, or a surprise test announced, everybody loses their cool.  But in reality, we know that Google is doing all this for the best, just like those teachers in high school.  All they want for us to do is to do things better.  Create better content, use fewer keywords, create higher quality links, and so forth.

The Sites At Risk

According to Google’s transparency report, most of teh sites at the top of the copyright notice pile are file sharing sites. This list includes cyberlockers with files for download, search sites widely used to find infringing material, Bittorrent sites and community sites for swapping files. There are very few blogs, legitimate forums or other non-piracy oriented sites on the list.

While this means that legitimate sites that don’t specialize in pirated content aren’t likely to get bit, it also means spam blogs and plagiarist sites and nefarious content farms are not on the list either. However, they are typically addressed and filtered out by other methods.

In short, the sites most at risk are the ones that are in the crosshairs of the major copyright holders as they are the ones sending off the most DMCA notices and racking up the most “points” against the domains they’re dealing with.

Still, this isn’t necessarily a guarantee that more notices equals greater penalty. Google also tracks how many of the total URLs have been reported and all of the sites at the top of the list have had less than 5% of their URLs involved, most less than 1%.

Depending on how Google approaches this penalty, it may be possible for a site with fewer URLs involved but a higher percentage to receive a stiffer penalty.

Overall, it’s safe to mention that Google has removed 300 million illegal download URLs, at the terribly least, over the past several years. whereas this seems like an astronomical number, it’s nevertheless to satisfy either MPAA or RIAA.

However, reports documenting the Pirate Update unrolled on the week of October 20, can be indicating that higher penalties area unit hit torrent websites.

A week has gone along since Google unrolled the latest Pirate Update, and there are some massive torrent players who reportedly walked the plank. Pirate Bay, one among the main torrent websites for embezzled media downloads, lost roughly forty-eight % of its Google visibility, according to an early analysis generated by Search Metrics. However, TorrentFreak is coverage this major drop doesn’t part Pirate Bay, claiming that they are doing not receive abundant traffic from Google. Pirate Bay depends a lot of on direct traffic from those that are looking for torrents; for the foremost half, their target market is already aware that they exist.

Other hard-hit torrent web site in Search Metrics’ analysis includes free-tv-video.me, move4k.to, mp3skull.com, myfreemp3.cc, and kickass.to. There are a total of 30 websites enclosed within the list, with keywords starting from picture downloads to look at movies free. As of now, these thirty websites have basically fallen from Google’s virtual formation. This all sounds nice, and if these reports are literally the case, Google is on the correct track.

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