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Old 03-18-2011, 07:18 PM  
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Originally Posted by signupdamnit View Post
[W]hy isn't Pirate Bay on the first couple pages for "movies" or "film" ? The CTR has to be high. Obviously it's free. I think the answer is likely that the results have been manually adjusted to appease organizations such as the MPAA. The same happened with the instant search results in order to appease such parties.
Some manual editing most likely occurs.

With respect to copyright infringing sites of concern to the MPAA, I would not be surprised if Google has some preemptive policy. That would be legally prudent — the large movie studios litigate — that is a given.
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