Rightsholders have filed five million requests to remove 'ThePirateBay.org' (TPB) URLs from Google's search index; those requests covered over 5,000,000 URLs.





'ThePirateBay.org' - Rightsholders have filed five million requests to remove 'ThePirateBay.org' URLs from Google's search results over the past several years this makes ‘ThePirateBay.org’ (TPB) is Still One of The Most Targeted Domains by Rightsholders by this year. Rightsholders have filedto removeURLs from Google's search results over the past several years this makesis Stillby this year.

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'ThePirateBay.org' reported over 1,50,000 formal requests to remove The Pirate Bay (TPB) links from the Google Search index; those requests covered over 5,000,000 URLs. the companyreported overto removelinks from the Google Search index; those requests covered over

However, two-thirds of these requests certainly resulted in links being removed, while the search engine took no action at all for less than one percent.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the most popular place for an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software which allows users to search for Magnet links.

These are used to reference resources available for download via peer-to-peer networks which, when opened in a BitTorrent client, begin downloading the desired content.

The Pirate Bay allowed users to download BitTorrent files (torrents), small files that contain metadata necessary to download the data files from other users. The torrents are organized into categories: "Audio", "Video", "Applications", "Games", "Porn" and "Other".

The Pirate Bay's homepage remains available as well, despite repeated attempts to have it deleted.

'Thepiratebay.org' URLs delisting Requests:

The huge popularity of thepiratebay.org URLs was reported since 2016, when the iconic torrent site returned to its original .org domain name, as can be seen in the graph below.

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Also reported by Google, In a significant percentage (22.2%) of these reported cases, the URLs weren’t even indexed by Google in the first place. Finally, 10.5% of those were duplicate reports. Google has been receiving so many reports regarding “thepiratebay.org” that they have decided to impose a preventive system that downgrades all search results of the domain to much lower ranks. The Pirate Bay Reported Removal Links As seen by the shared reported removal graph of all the 5,047,397 reported URLs, nearly two-thirds (66.5%) resulted in removed links. Little over 10% are duplicates that were sent in before by other copyright holders and 22.2% of the URLs were not indexed by Google in the first place. However, Google downgrades The Pirate Bay search links for some content. Because the site is repeatedly targeted, the search engine lowers its ranking in results for movies and other types of media.