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.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/google-search-results-display-dmca-takedown-notices/3751/

Reader Comments
DMCA (and others) complaints appear on Google search results pages for years! :)
Written by TOMHTML on 07.01.08
Thanks Tom. Maybe I missed them or never came across any DMCA notice on Google before.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 07.01.08
@ TOMHTML : True this message is shown on the search results from years.
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Written by Amit Bhawani on 07.01.08
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.
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 07.01.08
Yup .. Saw that a few years ago while searching with a pretty competitive keyword.
Written by Ramnath Banerjee on 07.01.08
Harsh, but sends a chilling message to people practicing plagiarism.
Written by Santosh on 07.01.08
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.
Written by VijayRanjanReddy on 07.01.08
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.
Written by Software Testing on 07.01.08
Update:
Try searching: seo heights
or check the below URL
link
Written by Software Testing on 07.01.08
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?
Written by Wayne on 09.26.08