



These sites consistently appear at the top of Google’s search results for popular songs or artists.įor everyone else in the world, if they’re not satisfied with how the sites they favor rank in Google, they learn a little something about search engine optimization. Guess what? They’re not happy, and apparently they won’t be happy until Google magically makes all infringement disappear ( poof).Įvidence that Google’s policy has had a demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of But that was just the prelude for today, when the RIAA would release a “report card” on how Google’s new filtering was going. Yesterday, we pointed out that the RIAA was bitching and complaining about how many DMCA notices they could submit (which turned out to be a case of the RIAA failing to RTFM). When Google first caved in to the legacy entertainment industry’s demands to start modifying search results to downrank sites that received a lot of DMCA notices, we quickly warned that the RIAA and MPAA would never think that it was enough, and would continue to whine and complain. Thu, Feb 21st 2013 08:50am - Mike Masnick
