News Story WEEK 5: Google Pledges to Lower Piracy Search Results

'The government is to review Google's pledge to downgrade illegal filesharing websites in its search results, after entertainment groups accused the internet giant of dragging its feet over the issue.'

• illegal filesharing sites are still ranked high for mp3 music downloads
• they were warned by the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt that laws would be brought in if Google did not do anything about the issue

I think that gatekeeper should target the websites themselves and not Google as it is merely a search engine. From my point of view, Google doesn't really encourage illegal downloading; if the illegal website wasn't there or was blocked like Pirate Bay, then Google links wouldn't lead anywhere. As large as it is, I don't believe Google should be forced to spend their money on removing some links.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/05/google-downgrade-piracy-sites-review