Google would black list of piracy-related search terms have been expanded with the names of many of filesharingsites. So would the search engine the names of torrentsites now from its Instant and Autocomplete services filter.
Google has been around since January 2011, a black list of terms related to piracy, but recently, the list silently considerably expanded, claims to Torrentfreak. Not only should terms such as ‘torrent’ and ‘bittorrent’ is no longer working at Instant and Autocomplete, but also the names of a large number of popular sites can be now filtered.
Examples of names that no longer appear are ‘thepiratebay’, ‘the pirate bay’, ‘isohunt’, ‘torrentreactor’ and ‘btjunkie’, while also filesharing and storage sites like ‘4shared’, ‘filesonic’ and ‘fileserve’ to the filter list. Employees of The Pirate Bay see a link between the update of the list, and the advent of Googles Music service.
Google makes use of the filtering capabilities in order to meet copyright holders, but very consistently seems to be the search engine not to go with the terms. So ‘pirate bay’ and ‘thepiratebay.org’ still useful for Instant and Autocomplete. Incidentally, the filter list only for the services used; the search engine indexes the relevant sites just and shows this invariant in the search results.