New Google Algorithm Change Immediately Raises Concerns

I am happy if this means that sites which display my photography or videos without permission or, the relevant license to do so, will be penalized in search results. If I report that a site is infringing on my copyrights by using my images and not even bothering to provide credits then I can also provide proof and verify that I do indeed own the images. It takes a long time to get site owners to remove images from their content merely by asking them to do so. One company even used an image in a way that suggested they provided the service that it represented. In this case they not only broke copyright by using the image but they also took credit for a projection festival which I also organized. The more tools that artists, illustrators and photographers have at fighting this abuse the better.

That explains a lot… I run an affiliate site for outdoor gear and saw my search impressions go from ~30,000 a day down to 5,000 over night. NONE of my content/media is infringing – as an affiliate partner I have the rights to use the data from the retailer.

Judging from the information presented in your article, it is a well-intended effort that results in a “guilty before being proved innocent” stance. It would be interesting to hear from someone in the legal profession as to if this is actually a legal/constitutional policy.

Another poke in the eye for small business owners from Google! This system will be mercilessly abused. This is nearly as bad as the unjustified bans that they impose on small business owning adwords customers.

Ok so maybe there won’t be some misuse … ? But in reality ! There are plenty of unhappy people out there just waiting to spread misery around by falsely accusing someone of this.
Who decides if it is a valid report ? does it go to court … the court of Google?

I believe that is not google that wants to do this, might be the corporations like the music ones that are pushing their luck.

Not well thought out! I’ve lost respect for what now has become morons’
It is and will be their downfall, you’ll see!
Good-by Google.

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I have seen a couple of these for sites I run that have embeded youtube videos. The thing is I get the takedown notice from Google for embeded video they themselves host on Youtube which are from people and entities entirely unknown to us. We merely use search terms on Youtube to get the videos of interest and display the results. So why does Google, who owns youtube, giving us a DMCA notice when they should be giving it to themselves. THEN if they penalize us for using public Youtube videos available on the youtube and google search – just what does that show us?

I see google users are still ignorant as ever. When will you people learn that google is garbage. How long are you going to support google and let them get away with all the bulls*** they keep pulling? When are you finally going to wake up by the masses and tell google to kiss our ass and not use them anymore? You want the internet to be taken over and rights restricted? By supporting google which is an arm of the government to crack down on our rights you enable them to keep taking things away or making things much more difficult including ruining good peoples business’s. Wake the hell up morons. It is time to tell google to stick it, never use them again and take the power we all have and support someone else whether it be Microsofts Bing or someone else but it is time to tell google to stick it but I can see most people are suckers and slaves to google. Once google has taken everything or made it so bad for business to where everyone gets hurt then maybe you will wake up. Stop using google and anyone that supports google. Where is the 99%? Don’t you realize what google is doing you fools?

I run a site which could potentially run into this issue as I review and link to websites, sometimes quoting them in the process.
I have no issue though, with Google taking into account copyright removal requests because usually where there is smoke there is fire. I’m sure Google aren’t going to penalise for one or two incidences, but where there are several valid copyright issues I think it is fair enough for Google to start penalising websites.

Call me stupid and ignorant, but it seems to me that Google could be loosing its grip. From my own experience, the recent algorithm changes have been producing very bad search results indeed. In my own search experiments, many sites at the top of the search results list have nowhere near the relevance that they once had about a year ago. I have been shown sites with nowhere near the scholarly and authoritative status I used to be getting.

As a matter course all of a site’s content should be sourced.
I applaud Google for instituting “self-policing” of the internet.

Most moves Google makes at this point is a ploy that dangles at the edge of legality and ethics all in the name of the almighty dollar.

I used to applaud Google, and still do for the innovations they used to make. But not, SERPs are all about siphoning traffic away from variety sites, and to Google’s own partners and properties.

It’s a real shame.

In my opinion it is time to get an alternative to Google!!!
Google has: search, analytics, adsense, adwords, and now it starts to punish websties, that have got permit to reuse other peoples work – be it articles or other stuff.
It is not possible to collect article of special interest in one site, and be visible on Google. It is not a matter of infringement, when proper permission is in place, even the article is duplicate content from another site.
What Google was good at in the beginning: providing quality search for quality content, it now reverts and starts to punish those that collect such quality content.
Too powerfull and too monopolistic.
It also goes into the directory business and closes down businesses worldwide doing so.
Now it starts to provide content after search, and that way plays content provider. Websites that lived of that before, now receive less traffic than before. That is the power abuse of Google. When the opportunity is there it abuses it – from my perspective.