Google search displays pirated sites as "popular sites"

Play the game for 10 minutes from search resultsCan doJob information posted in search resultsAnd Google search is constantly evolving. Such Google tried to display "popular site" to the search word, but it is pointed out that it displayed a site which distributes pirated contents as a popular site for some words.

Handy: Google Highlights 'Best Torrent Sites' in Search Results - TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/handy-google-highlights-best-torrent-sites-in-search-results-170709/

Google search now casually highlights 'best torrent sites' - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/10/15949066/google-search-best-torrent-sites-highlight

It is common for "popular torrent sites to become unusable suddenly", so each time Torrent site users are looking for alternative sites. At that time, many users seem to use Google as a search engine, but when searching for "best torrent sites" and "torrent sites" on that Google, it is popular as "popular site" at the top of search results The high torrent site of it is displayed.


The candidates displayed here are not classified manually by our engineers, but it seems that the ones selected by the automated process are displayed. If it is a casual user, it seems to be "easy to find the site you want" because it is displayed at the top of Google search, but it is another matter whether the owner of the site likes the same way as TorrentFreak I point out.

Because many users know that these torrent sites offer pirated content, because they are different gray from streaming sites and so on.

Furthermore, when trying to search for streaming service, Putlocker of streaming site which distributes pirated content seems to be displayed in the same way, in addition to a completely paid service such as hulu and Netflix. The display is only the site name and logo, and it seems that it is completely treated as being in the same line as a user who does not know about the service.


However, this was not the first time that Google displayed a pirated site in the search results, but sometimes a review by a pirated site of a movie was displayed next to a review by a video content database such as IMDb. According to TorrentFreak, "popular site" is displayed at the top of search results only on Google.com, and it is not yet implemented in localized versions such as Google.co.jp .

In addition, when The Verge inquired about this on Google, it seems that only comments saying "I am working now" has returned, so it is expected that some updates will be made soon.