engine - 7:01 pm on Dec 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

Google Takes Steps To Make Copyright Work Better Online [googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com]

As the web has grown, we have seen a growing number of issues relating to infringing content. We respond expeditiously to requests to remove such content from our services, and have been improving our procedures over time. But as the web grows, and the number of requests grows with it, we are working to develop new ways to better address the underlying problem. That’s why today we’re announcing four changes that we’ll be implementing over the next several months:

We’ll act on reliable copyright takedown requests within 24 hours. We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete. We will improve our AdSense anti-piracy review. We will experiment to make authorised preview content more readily accessible in search results.