When a website receives numerous DMCA Violation notices or removal notices, Google demotes the sites in their search results. This is an older article, but one worth understanding. At Copyright Slap, we send both DMCA violation notices on behalf of users as well as what is called Search Result De-Indexing. De-indexing tells Google that a specific URL has posted copyrighted content without permission and to remove that specific page from any future search results it offers.
What Google’s Pirate Update says is that note only does Google remove the URL, it also demotes that domain from appearing in future searches but up to 89%. It all adds up. Maybe slowly, but we eventually do damage one copyright holder at a time.
PS Today’s featured AI generated mess “Pirate Update” brought to you by a pirate reading a VERY intricate map with a warped magnifying glass while standing on a rug that is missing a large piece, and also, of course, by “what exactly is that parrot resting on???”
