Goodbye Content Google Takedown Requests On the Rise
September 17, 2014
The article titled Chart of the Day: Google Receives Millions of URL Takedown Requests Each Day on Business Insider reports on the ever-ascending number of takedown requests Google gets every day. According to the article, it was only a few years ago that the number of requests coming in was limited to a few hundred daily. Yet only in the past year it has gone from just over half a million a day to just under 1.2 million. The information comes from Google’s transparency report. The article states,
“Based on Google’s data, which was charted for us by Statista, Google was asked to remove about 8 million search results just last week. As you can see from the chart, the number of takedown requests shot up around May, which is when Google first decided to publicize the contents of those takedown requests. As 9to5Google’s Mark Hearn points out, Google only received a few hundred takedown requests per year just a few years ago.”
The reason for the mad growth is the increasingly simple process of uploading and accessing pirated content through search engines and torrents. If this is true, how exactly does one find certain information? Sound like, goodbye content!
Chelsea Kerwin, September 17, 2014
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