DMCA Update and Question

[mayest]

Hi all,

Back in this thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]

I posted about a site that had stolen one of my pages and put AdSense on it. After some encouragement, I filed a DMCA complaint with Google. I finally got an email today and they said that "The following webpages have been removed from Google" and then gave the URL.

Well, I went to the page and it is still there, but without AdSense. So, does the sentence above mean that they have permanently removed that page from their SERPs? Or that they just won't show ads on it?

Interestingly, the rest of that site still has ads showing (but not on my content). I wonder why Google wouldn't ban their AdSense account. I'm quite sure that some of the other content there has been scraped as well. Maybe nobody else has complained yet, so Google only counts this as one strike?

In any case, I'm thankful that Google actually investigated my case and found in my favor.

[jdMorgan]

Google can remove the copy-page from their search results and cancel the AdSense account, but you'll need to file a DMCA with the site's hosting company to actually get the page taken down.

Jim

[koan]

Google has no say whether a web site is up or not, they can only remove it from their index and adsense.

Good work on removing yet another parasitic cheater from the program.

[mayest]

Excellent. I'm thrilled that will no longer be in the index and that they had the AdSense removed.

I'll file a DMCA with the host to see if I can get the page removed completely. I would contact the site owner, but their "Contact Us" page doesn't really give any way to contact them. I wonder why? :-)

[Marcia]

How about the whois contact info? If that's falsified, they've got problems with the domain.

[netmeg]

If you want to see if the site is still in the index, type in

site:example.com/pagename.html

or whatever the specific offending page is.

That should also work in Yahoo and MSN.

[mayest]

Marcia, thanks. I should have thought of using WhoIs. I'll take a look.

netmeg: Great idea! I did that and the page wasn't there. When I scrolled to the bottom of the page, it said

"In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org."

Thanks again everybody.