DMCA Complaints appear in Google Search Results

01 jul 2008

Google will remove web pages from their search results for which they have received a DMCA complaint from the original owners alleging copyright infringement.

google dmca complaint

Not just that, if Google acts upon a complaint and removes certain web pages or websites from search results, they will also display this information at the bottom of results page linking to the text of the DMCA takedown notice. See screenshot.

*Will update this story once I reproduce this message on Google search.

http://www.zorgloob.com TOMHTML

DMCA (and others) complaints appear on Google search results pages for years! :)
http://www.labnol.org/ Amit Agarwal

Thanks Tom. Maybe I missed them or never came across any DMCA notice on Google before.
http://www.amitbhawani.com Amit Bhawani

@ TOMHTML : True this message is shown on the search results from years.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/search-comparator/
http://www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html
http://www.millionclues.co.nr Arun Basil Lal

Google bots caches everything that it comes up with. We have already read in labnol about Google giving Product registration codes. So this is not big news. Bigger thing is that google do not pysically remove anything from their server even upon request.
http://webtips.blogsome.com Ramnath Banerjee

Yup .. Saw that a few years ago while searching with a pretty competitive keyword.
http://www.santo.sh Santosh

Harsh, but sends a chilling message to people practicing plagiarism.
http://vijayrr.blogspot.com VijayRanjanReddy

This kind of issues mainly come across when people upload latest movies and who are against piracy they report to google n google does it. I have seen recently many such cases.
http://www.aztecsoft.com/our_services/independent_testing/ Software Testing

I have seen this in SERPs more than 2 years back. We filed a complaint against a website who copied the entire our entire corporate website and finally Google removed its cache from the server and displayed the same above text while searching for the duplicate website.
http://www.aztecsoft.com/our_services/independent_testing/ Software Testing

Update:

Try searching: seo heights

or check the below URL

http://www.google.com/search?q=seo+heights&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIN259IN259
Wayne

I am being cheated out of many hundreds of dollars by a company who I believe Google promotes.
I cancelled my membership with “freelotto.com” because I felt I was being swindled but even still they withdrew hundreds of dollars from my bank account, which I needed to close because of them. I apparently won a number of prizes in their “so called” competitions but received nothing whatsoever. No-one would answer any of my e-mails, not even the General Manager. I want my money back from these scoundrels plus I want to report them to the proper officials. Can you please tell me who to report them too?

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DMCA Complaints appear in Google Search Results

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