<story><title>Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/google-downranks-65000-pirate-sites-in-search-results-180629/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiado</author><text>I remember I used to do filetype searches for mp3, mp4, flac, etc... and get all sorts of good stuff. I would find ftp servers with thousands of songs and just download anything interesting. I feel like the Google search algorithm peaked many years ago and has gradually been neutered by all sorts of special interest groups who have no doubt harassed Google with legal threats. Google probably doesn&amp;#x27;t want to censor results the way they have been forced to. Even pdf filetype searches got ruined too because Elsevier and JSTOR probably harassed Google as well. The recent change to Google images where they removed links to images made me switch to Bing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Google probably doesn&amp;#x27;t want to censor results the way they have been forced to.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;From what I&amp;#x27;ve seen, there is a large contingent of Google who doesn&amp;#x27;t want to provide unfettered access to information. Rather, this contingent wants to socially engineer everyone for the better using their power.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/google-downranks-65000-pirate-sites-in-search-results-180629/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiado</author><text>I remember I used to do filetype searches for mp3, mp4, flac, etc... and get all sorts of good stuff. I would find ftp servers with thousands of songs and just download anything interesting. I feel like the Google search algorithm peaked many years ago and has gradually been neutered by all sorts of special interest groups who have no doubt harassed Google with legal threats. Google probably doesn&amp;#x27;t want to censor results the way they have been forced to. Even pdf filetype searches got ruined too because Elsevier and JSTOR probably harassed Google as well. The recent change to Google images where they removed links to images made me switch to Bing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iaml</author><text>It would be funny to see bing finally reach google search quality not because it got better, but because google got worse.</text></comment>