Amit Singhal, SVP, Engineering at Google Search has posted a notice on Google’s search blog noting that the search engine will be downgrading copyright infringers on it’s algorithms, the move mainly concerns music and film violations but it’s a move in the right direction.
…’Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results’…
Full article here: An update to our search algorithms
