You probably noticed it too: # Google, in the last 12 months, has taken steps to eliminate many #link pirate, which linked to illegal sites or promoted illegal products. For some time now, in fact, it has been increasingly difficult to find content on streaming or download that are illegal. Also due to the increase in paid streaming offers, which increasingly diverts users towards forms of "legal" use of content.
To date, in fact, Google receives more than 20 million requests for pirate link removal per week by copyright holders. Years ago, there was talk of infinitely lower numbers.
Of all the requests received, the Mountain View team satisfies on average more than 90%: in 2016, more than one billion links were removed. Yet the lobbies that defend copyright are still not satisfied, because the "delisting", i.e. the elimination of the results, is not definitive. In any case, piracy has suffered a serious blow from Google in the last year, and the results, at least in part, are visible.