What is Pirate 2.0 Update ?

[Pihu]

What is Pirate 2.0 Update ?

[dennis123]

Hi Friends,
The SEO world gets an earthquake whenever Google rolls out another algorithm update. With most algo updat etc. If “Pirate” sounds too whimsical, you can call this update the “DMCA Penalty.” DMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

IN this if the website is having a copyright issue with another website then Google will penalize the website which has the pirated content.

Google took measures to stem internet piracy in four extremely tactical ways. The end goal is to increase the visibility of legitimate alternatives and push the visibility of illegitimate resources to near non-existence. Here is how Google is working to help fight internet piracy.

Removing infringing pages from search results
Utilizing valid removal notices as a ranking signal and decreasing visibility for infringing sites
Removing terms associated with piracy from Google’s Autocomplete suggestions
Removing terms associated with piracy from Google’s Related Search results

[Lukedawn]

Its a recent google update

[chetna]

Like code named Penguin and Panda Google released the new project called Google Pirate Update to discover and control content piracy.

[kajol]

In Pirate Update Google processes all the sites it knows through the Pirate filter.

[Saravanan28]

Google update Pirate 2.0 to fight piracy. After many criticisms that Google is not doing enough against piracy, they recently released the Pirate update. ... Pirate 2.0 with anti-piracy measure is more powerful than before. Search Engine Land reported that one torrent website saw search traffic drops dramatically in half.

[akshaypandit]

Google announced its updated Piracy algorithm known as 2.0 would launch globally the following week.

[HosTechS]

Google's latest algorithm called the Pirate 2.0 update can also be called a “DMCA Penalty.” which stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Ac where, if a website is having a copyright issue with another website then Google will penalize the website which has the pirated content.