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Why monetization is not enabled ? | what should you do ?? (Google Transparency report)

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Google websites take down requests hit the 1 million milestone

#Google websites take down requests hit the 1 million milestone

The annual Google transparency report has revealed a new milestone after Google received its millionth website takedown request in the the six years that Google has been tabulating. Such requests usually ask the biggest search engine online to take down content that may infringe copyright.

In January 2015 Google highlights in a graph that it was getting on average below 10 million per day,…

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Almost 2 Billion URLs Removed from Google Search Results

Almost 2 Billion URLs Removed from Google Search Results

Google has delisted 1.81 billion URLs for copyright infringement as of October 1, 2016.  This represents 91 percent of the total number of take down requests made by copyright owners to date.

On the other hand, out of the total number of take down requests to date, only 40. 6 million URLS or two percent of the total number of take down requests were rejected.

This is the latest data provided by G…

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Google Şeffaflık Raporu nedir?

Google Şeffaflık Raporu nedir? #google #şeffaflıkraporu #TransparencyReport #internet

Google Şeffaflık Raporu nedir diye soranlar için bu yazı derlendi. Google’ın belirli sürelerde açıkladığı ‘Şeffaflık Raporu’ için bu yazıyı okuyabilirsiniz.

Google’ın Türkçesi “Şeffaflık Raporu” olan “Transparency Report” verileri herkesin erişimine açık. Bu raporun ve uygulamanın amacı “web”i daha güvenli bir hale getirmek. Googlegeçenlerde bu bilgi paylaşımı şartlarını hükümetlerin ve…

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HostGator has always supported a free and open Internet. Google's recent transparency report can be interpreted as rather troubling on that front. Read all about it in our new blog post:

http://blog.hostgator.com/2014/01/22/google-transparency-report-government-removal-requests-continue-rise/

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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers

The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant’s customers.

That’s why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to disclose it has received a so-called National Security Letter. But under a deal brokered with the President Barack Obama administration, Google on Tuesday published a “range” of times it received National Security Letters demanding it divulge account information to the authorities without warrants.

It was the first time a company has ever released data chronicling the volume of National Security Letter requests.

National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans’ finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs and has even been reprimanded for abusing them. The NSLs are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and businesses like Google to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more as long as the FBI says the information is “relevant” to an investigation.

In each year from 2009 to 2012, Google said it received “0-999″ National Security Letters.

But in its talks with the authorities over releasing figures, Google said national security was on the mind of the Obama administration.

“You’ll notice that we’re reporting numerical ranges rather than exact numbers. This is to address concerns raised by the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies that releasing exact numbers might reveal information about investigations. We plan to update these figures annually,” Richard Salgado, a Google legal director, wrote in a blog post.

What makes the government’s position questionable is that it is required by Congress to disclose the number of times the bureau issues National Security Letters. In 2011, the year with the latest available figures, the FBI issued 16,511 National Security Letters pertaining to 7,201 different persons. (.pdf)

Google said the number of accounts connected to National Security letters ranged between “1000-1999″ for each of the reported years other than 2010. In that year, the range was “2000-2999.”

Google noted that the FBI may “obtain ‘the name, address, length of service, and local and long distance toll billing records’ of a subscriber to a wire or electronic communications service. The FBI can’t use NSLs to obtain anything else from Google, such as Gmail content, search queries, YouTube videos or user IP addresses.”

Google often must disclose that data via other means, as described here.

Under the Patriot Act, Google or others who receive a NSL must disclose the sought-after information if the authorities say the request is “relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.”

National Security Letters are a powerful tool because they do not require court approval, and they come with a built-in gag order, preventing recipients from disclosing to anyone that they have even received an NSL. An FBI agent looking into a possible anti-terrorism case can self-issue an NSL to a credit bureau, ISP or phone company with only the sign-off of the special agent in charge of their office.

What’s more, the lack of court oversight raises the possibility for extensive abuse.

In 2007 a Justice Department Inspector General audit found that the FBI had indeed abused its authority and misused NSLs on many occasions. After 9/11, for example, the FBI paid multimillion-dollar contracts to AT&T and Verizon requiring the companies to station employees inside the FBI and to give these employees access to the telecom databases so they could immediately service FBI requests for telephone records. The IG found that the employees let FBI agents illegally look at customer records without paperwork and even wrote NSLs for the FBI.

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Microsoft Asks for Removal & Torrent Sites Gets Removed!!!!

Google regularly receives requests from copyright owners and governments to remove information from their services every day. Google only discloses the copyright removal requests they receive through their web form for Google Search. Google doesn’t include the removal requests that it gets to products other than Google Search (e.g., requests directed at YouTube or Blogger) and also requests submitted by means other than their web form, such as fax or written letter are not included under the Google’s transparency report. Many top organizations or businesses (copyright owners) online take help of other reporting organizations which protects brands against piracy and counterfeit activity on the Internet, to send content removal requests to Google.

Microsoft Corporation is on the top of the list of copyright owners with 4,060,559 URLs removal requests to Google search across 30,525 different domains in Google search, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is second on the list with 1,885,746 URL removal requests across 6,908 domains, NBCUniversal an American media and entertainment company is third on the list with 1,694,614 URL removal requests across 18,166 different domains since 6th April 2011 till date. Find the complete list here.

Free download sites especially free torrent sites and free online file uploading & sharing sites are dominating the top 100 sites which are on the receiving end by getting lakhs of copyright removal requests (URL removal requests) on Google by copyright owners and reporting organizations for many different reasons.

Google also regularly receives requests from government agencies and courts around the world to remove content from their services. Governments ask companies to remove content for many different reasons.  Government request data is updated once in six-months by Google. Google only shows removal requests for all its properties for Government data. Most content removal requests from governments of many countries are due to allegations of spoiling good reputation of someone, while others are due to allegations that the content violates local laws prohibiting hate speech or pornography. Laws surrounding these issues vary by country.  Google also provides an interactive world map showing government & court content removal requests of some countries.

A number of countries, including the Czech Republic, Bolivia, Ukraine and Jordan made their first removal requests last year.

Remember Google now takes into account a new signal in the search engine rankings, i.e., the number of valid copyright removal notices they receive for any given site, the sites getting high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in Google’s search results. This will definitely see a downfall of rankings for the sites which get lot of copyright removal notices.

This new Google search engine ranking factor of ranking the sites on the number of copyright removals will definitely help the companies to curb the practice of piracy and plagiarism online.