Google has been asked to remove more than 1,000,000,000 search results relating to pirated torrents links

It seems that 2015 is a bad year of torrent websites. As we reported that torrent websites like YTS and Popcorn Time going bust, now there are reports that copyright holders demanded that Google remove a billion search results pertaining to ‘Pirate’ torrents.

Yes, you heard it right, they have asked the search giant to remove more than 1,000,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine in recent years. The remarkable milestone, reached this week, is at the center of an ongoing debate over how search engines are expected to deal with pirate sites.

As I have noted above, this year has been a terrible year for the torrent websites. Consider this, in 2008, Google received only a few dozen take down notices during the entire year. But in 2015, it receives and processes two million per day on average.

Google’s Transparency Report published this week reveals that it has has been asked to remove over 1,007,766,482 links to allegedly having pirated content. Indeed, that’s more than a billion reported URLs, a milestone Google crossed just a few days ago.

The number of notices continues to increase at a rapid pace as nearly half of the requests, 420 million, were submitted during the first months of 2015. The graph below illustrates this sharp rise in takedown notices.

New Google Play Store now hitting devices with fresh look, better content separation.

Google to announce the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P in India on October 13

Google has sent out invites for a press eventNexus 5X and Nexus 6P are set to be announced. Previously, Google revealed the pricing of both smartphones in India, but unfortunately there was no launch date announced. The Google Store listed only the entry level storage for both models, with the 16GB Nexus 5X set to debut for ₹31,999 ($485) and the 32GB Nexus 6P for ₹39,999 ($607).

it is holding on October 13, where both the 

We should soon have answers as to pricing and availability of higher storage models in India. Be sure to stay tuned for details as they become available
For more info go to Nexus homepage

In this never ending battle of supremacy between Google and Microsoft, the latter bragged that theirs is a much better company than Google. Although these companies are fundamentally different including their targeted users, both these tech giants are always compared in fronts of their technology and business sense.

At the Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 two days back, the company’s COO Kevin Turner spoke that Microsoft was in a great position to take Google’s business. Turner proudly said that Microsoft had won back 1,252 of its business customers last year. 

With the new applications for Android, iOS, Windows and the recently released Office 2016, Microsoft believes it can easily take Google head on in the world of apps. Turner went on saying:

We have better technology, and we have an enterprise-ready cloud, we don’t snoop through email, we don’t serve you apps, we don’t drive cars around listening to your conversations, we are not that company.

At the WPC, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview that Google wouldn’t have existed if not for Windows, innumerable software companies have become multi-billion brands due to Windows.

The CEO asserted that Microsoft ‘Is and Provides a Universal Platform’ for all the applications unlike Mac OS and iOS or Chrome and Android. Microsoft’s aim is to provide one experience on all of the devices. Nadella has also explained why Windows 10 upgrade is free.

Windows 10 comes with a feature called “Continuum” that gives users the experience of the desktop on their phone. Windows 10 “Continuum”  allows the users to communicate with all the devices on a single platform. Be it Lumia, or PC, or HoloLens. This will also encourage other companies or start-ups (OEMs) to build their own technologies right over Windows.

Slamming Google for its snooping practices, the COO of Microsoft Kevin Turner suggested that they need to win every deal against Google and rescue the remaining Google Apps users (business).

Windows has made its new OS open to all other service providers and app developers  such as making YouTube app for Windows Phones. The company has also called Android a big pile of code in the past.

Such partnerships will lead to amazing technologies and innovations and will ultimately benefit the users.

With inputs from ZDNnet