Google (GOOG) made the first big strike in its campaign to punish repeat copyright violators in its search rankings by deleting autocomplete suggestions for The Pirate Bay’s website. TorrentFreak reports that typing in the first few letters of “Pirate Bay” will no longer give an autocomplete suggestion for the popular file-sharing website, although typing “Pirate Bay” in full and pressing return will still retrieve the site as the first search result. Google first announced this past August that it had updated its algorithms to punish websites that were repeatedly flagged with legitimate copyright violations by lowering their rankings in search results.

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Prior to joining BGR as News Editor, Brad Reed spent five years covering the wireless industry for Network World. His first smartphone was a BlackBerry but he has since become a loyal Android user.