Feb 29, 2024 08:00:00

Google search deletion requests are increasing at a record level, and the total number will exceed 10 billion by the end of this year

As part of its efforts to combat copyright infringement, Google takes measures to remove or remove illegal content from appearing higher in Google search results. These blocking operations are mainly carried out in accordance with

deletion requests from rights holders, and it has been reported that the number of deletion requests has increased to a record level and is close to exceeding 10 billion in total.

Google Search Takedown Requests Rush to 8 Billion at Record Pace * TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/google-search-takedown-requests-rush-to-8-billion-at-record-pace-240223/

In recent years, Google has been focusing on removing pirated sites from its search index in an effort to combat copyright infringement. This includes ``preemptive'' deletions, which remove items from the index without ever appearing in search results.

More than 680 million URLs will be blocked by Google due to copyright infringement in 2022, and nearly half of them will be blocked without ever being displayed - GIGAZINE

In 2012, Google added a `` Exclusion of Content Due to Copyright Issues '' section to its Transparency Report , which publishes privacy, security, and access to information data. This page records the total number of URLs that have been requested under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), domains that have been designated as infringing, and the number of copyright holders and organizations that have made requests. As of mid-January, the total number of requests was 7,749.31 million.

Around late February 2024, it was confirmed that the total number of requests exceeded 8 billion. From around 2019 to 2021, it took about two years for the total number of requests to increase by 1 billion, but this time it exceeded 7 billion around August 2023, and then increased by 1 billion in just 6 months. and is increasing at an unprecedented pace.

The increase in takedown requests is driven by agencies that specialize in DMCA requests. Up until 2022, Link-Busters , which markets digital content and removes pirated content, had received approximately 6.48 million requests in the highest number of months, but from September 2023 onwards, it has received more than 10 million removal requests almost every day. Google's transparency report shows that you applied.

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Comeso , a similar anti-piracy service, sends out an average of about 1.2 million removal requests per week, or more than 400 million per year. Kakao Entertainment, which operates the streaming service MelOn and web comics in South Korea, touts that it has collaborated with Comeso to remove approximately 208 million pieces of illegal content in the six months from June to December 2023. A white paper has been published .

The ``designated domains'' shown in Google's transparency report include many of the world's largest pirated e-book sites, ``Z-Library ''. In addition to domains for each country and region, Z-Library has a strategy of assigning unique domains to users to access as a countermeasure against domain blocking, so there are millions of URLs related to Z-Library alone. there is.

TorrentFreak, which reported on this matter, predicts, ``If this trend continues, the number of deleted items could reach 10 billion in the near future.'' On the other hand, ``8 billion may seem huge, but the number of domains added to Google's search index increased from about 30 trillion to about 130 trillion just from 2013 to 2016. 'Deleted domains may be a small percentage, less than 0.007%.'

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