favicon Why YouTube could be sidestepping Google's new takedown-based ranking system

  • The Verge Aug 11, 2012, 11:49 am by: Adi Robertson120 pts
    The Verge writes, Yesterday, Google announced that it would be tweak its search results to downrank sites that had high numbers of takedown requests, a sign that they could be hosting pirated files. But as Search Engine Land explains, this change isn't likely to hurt its own YouTube service, which also has a high takedown volume. That's because YouTube has a different content removal system than the standard content removal form used for Search. So when a video is flagged for removal, it appears to be counted as a takedown in YouTube, but not Seach, and other YouTube results aren't in danger of getting...

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