Google's Piracy Purge: 3.5B DMCA Takedown Notices in a Year

So what search machines should i use instead to find some of those sites?

I wonder, too.

duckduckgo is still reasonably usable. Otherwise use sites that index DHT or use piracy communities on lemmy.

Google should be regarded as an enemy of the internet, and probably, by extension, society. But then so should any corporation that size.

lopis 1y ago ↗

Bing has also been cracking down on piracy and streaming, and the effect on DDG has been notorious.

If DDG is making any money, they should be investing it in creating their own independent index

lopis 1y ago ↗

That's really not trivial. But Europe is trying: https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

[dead] throawayonthe 1y ago ↗

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Baidu.com (in Chinese) Yandex.com (in English)

Although you will prefer google for shopping, reddit, restaurants, etc.

[deleted] 1y ago ↗

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Unironically, the Lumen Database [0].

Google's Piracy Purge: 3.5B DMCA Takedown Notices in a Year (torrentfreak.com)