Why Google Isn’t Much Of A Torrent Search Engine

If you’re looking for a Bit Torrent download, there are lots of good places to go find it. One place you probably shouldn’t consider is Google, and not just because Google might list some really old downloads that aren’t actually available. As TorrentFreak discovered, Google is forced to filter out many pages indexed from torrent sites due to DMCA requests, like at the bottom of some of these search results pages.
Google probably shouldn’t be removing any of these pages, since there really aren’t any legal precedents establishing torrent files, which are pointers to downloads, as actual infringing material. Most sites like to say that since a torrent is just a pointer, it isn’t illegal content at all, and that arguement hasn’t really been defeated yet.
More interestingly is a look at the actual pages removed. If we look at the ChillingEffects.org page (which Google smartly always links […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg