The biggest targets of copyright takedown requests on Google are file sharing services
As the world's No.1 search engine, Google gets a lot of requests to remove links to sites that are believed to host objectionable material, such as copyrighted content. According to Google's most recent transparency report, the internet company now receives 2.2 million takedown requests every day for sites with content that someone claims is pirated.
Among the most complained about sites are file hosting services, which allow users to store music and videos online and to easily share them with other users. According to the most recent data from Google, charted for us by Statista, file hosting services ranked among the top sites that were reported to Google for containing material that allegedly infringes copyrights.
If Google decides that the website does indeed contain copyright-infringing content, it removes the URL from its search results. The website itself is not affected, although it will lose an important source of traffic.
