Leahy applauds Google's plans to update search technology.
Google is planning to roll out updated search technology to make infringing sites appear lower in its search results, said a company report released Friday (http://bit.ly/ZycKl2). “Google has a number of new advertising products which further promote authorized sources of…
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content in Search results,” it said. Google said it received more than 224 million Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice and takedown requests for its search results in 2013. “I welcome Google’s announcement that it will improve its efforts to address the problem of rogue websites that are dedicated to profiting from stolen works,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said in a statement Friday (http://1.usa.gov/1voF0Do). “All businesses in the Internet ecosystem have an important role to play in minimizing illegal activity,” he said. “I have met with Google on several occasions to encourage them to be more responsive to the role search engines play in directing consumers to these rogue websites,” Leahy said. “I will be tracking the results once they are implemented,” he said.