It has come to my attention that the yahoo search engine is filtering certain site results.
http://torrentfreak.com/yahoo-filters-pirate-bay-080218/As of this weekend, Yahoo started to filter some of 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.
It is not clear why Yahoo decided to filter The Pirate Bay, but seems unlikely that they did it because the site is often associated with copyright infringement. Perhaps Yahoo’s index is just screwed up? If we dig a little deeper, it turns out that not all Pirate Bay’s pages are gone.
Interestingly, Yahoo! was found guilty of infringing copyright themselves two months ago. During December last year, Yahoo China’s music search was confirmed illegal in a Beijing court ruling which stated that under new copyright laws it facilitates mass copyright infringement.
This is a dangerous precedent for a western search engine company and I for one urge users to discontinue using such stealth censoring products, after all what are they going to secretly filter next ?
