Google's ban

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/09/2012

Google has at last heard the pleas of RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) by adding the world’s biggest free file-sharing site Pirate Bay to its censorship list. The search giant has already blocked it from its instant and Autocomplete search features even though the file-sharing site is still indexed in Google’s search function. But Pirate Bay which seems unaffected by such measures wrote in a blog that “Users will go directly to us instead and use our search instead. We’ll grow even more massive.” (CNET)

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