February 19, 2008
Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results
TorrentFreak reports that "as of this weekend, Yahoo started to filter some of The Pirate Bay’s pages. For some mysterious reason, several pages from the tracker disappeared from Yahoo’s index. Unintentionally or not, a search for “The Pirate Bay” doesn’t show a link to the homepage of the popular BitTorrent tracker.
Filtering or blocking the Pirate Bay is beginning to become a trend. Little over a week ago, a Danish court ordered the ISP “Tele2" to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay. Soon after that the Kuwait government decided to do the same, and now Yahoo is also censoring the Internet.
... It seems like The Pirate Bay is the only BitTorrent site that is filtered at the moment. Searches for Mininova and Isohunt are still working fine, Yahoo! even suggests you should try “mininova torrents”, “mininova downloads” and “mininova today downloads”, and more related searches.
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