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Did Yahoo Delete The Pirate Bay From Search Results?
from the making-friends?--or-enemies? dept
There's a lot of buzz going around concerning reports that Yahoo has deleted The Pirate Bay from its search index, though it appears not everyone is seeing it. There hasn't been an official explanation just yet -- and it could be an accidental move or simply a hiccup, but it raises some questions about Yahoo's search index when such a site disappears. This is especially true given the controversial (deserved or not) nature of The Pirate Bay, and the efforts by the entertainment industry to shut the site down. Initially, we're willing to give Yahoo the benefit of the doubt, but a full explanation of what happened would be useful at this point.
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pirate bay
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pirate bay
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pirate bay
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TPB
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i've never used yahoo for anything before, and now i have a good reason for that...
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Me Too
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pirate bay
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Yup.
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hi
morons.
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Re: hi
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Same results here
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Yahoo (Pirate Bay)
Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the world's largest bittorrent tracker.
72 people bookmarked this page under: torrents - bittorrent - download
www.piratebay.org - 10k - Cached
Yahoo's search results 02/18/2008. Where's the issue?
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Same results here
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Re: pirate bay
You do realize that piratebay.com isn't the same thing as thepiratebay.org don't you?
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Its still there...
8 Results... if they planned on removing it from their index, they should have done a better job.
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Deffinetly not removed...
This one returns 513,591 results.
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BOOOOOOOOOO YAhooooo
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BOOOOOOOOOO YAhooooo
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mpaa.org
Don't forget that Yahoo is the kind of company that is only all too eager to help totalitarian governments suppress dissent too. So should this come as any surprise?
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Re: Its still there...
Yeah, that's kind of sloppy. Not surprising though.
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thepiratebay.org
"On August 28, 2007, the World Organization for Human Rights sued Yahoo for allegedly passing information (email and IP address) with the Chinese government that caused the arrests of writers and dissidents. The suit was filed in San Francisco for journalists, Shi Tao, and Wang Xiaoning."
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Re: Its still there...
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Re: Its still there...
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Re: Re: Its still there...
thepiratebay.com redirects to thepiratebay.org.
piratebay.com is different though.
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Did Yahoo Delete The Pirate Bay
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yep removed
sneaky attempt by yahoo, no doubt.
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I wonder what...
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Okay, so...
This really pisses me off because I use Yahoo! all the time. I even purchase web space from them. They're getting a nasty damn letter from me tonight.
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Re: I wonder what...
I checked and changed my search prefs as well, but it still did not return the correct Piratebay.org result.
I agree with the others that this is shady work on the part of Yahoo! and they have lost my trust completely. Good thing I don't rely on them for a damn thing.
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TPB
Why do you need to search for it? It's all over the news. Everyone already knows about it.
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just tried it from UK
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Can you say "Steissand Effect?"
Thanks for promoting Yahoo! search engine to drive up traffice and potential value.
Yours,
Bill Gates
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Re: Noob
"i've never used yahoo for anything before, and now i have a good reason for that..."
Wow, you must be new to the internets, to have never done the yahoo.
Obvious, noob is obvious
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Yahoo?
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