Google will remove web pages from their search results for which they have received a DMCA complaint from the original owners alleging copyright infringement.
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.
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Reader Comments
DMCA (and others) complaints appear on Google search results pages for years! :)
Thanks Tom. Maybe I missed them or never came across any DMCA notice on Google before.
@ 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
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.
Yup .. Saw that a few years ago while searching with a pretty competitive keyword.
Harsh, but sends a chilling message to people practicing plagiarism.
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.
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.
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