tech2 News Staff

In its latest transparency report, Google has revealed how takedown requests have increased drastically.

Now, a new report by TorrentFreak reveals Google has started receiving a record one million take down requests per day for alleged copyright-infringing content. "Last week Google was asked to remove more than 7.8 million results, up more than 10% compared to the previous record a week earlier," states the report.

Though there has been an upward trend in the takedown requests, but over the past couple of months the number of reported URLs seen a significant rise, adds the report. It should be noted that just a few years ago, Google would receive around a few dozens of takedown requests the entire year, but now the number has increased by leaps and bounds. To put the rapid increase in perspective, back in 2008, Google received one take down request per eight days, and now the figure has jumped to one takedown request every 8 milliseconds.

The rise in awareness about issues related to copyright and infringement of data are said to be the reason for such takedowns. Moreover, in the past couple of years, Google has been more transparent about such requests. The report also points out that the massive surge in removal requests is not without controversy. The search giant has been 'pulling out some pages that don't contain any copyrighted material, due to mistakes or abuse, but are deleted nonetheless.'