Yahoo! filters out searches for The Pirate Bay

Cowboyofdeath · **Posted:** February 18th, 2008, 8:14 am

First the Digg clone, now this. Yahoo! fails again.

Adbot · **Posted:** February 18th, 2008, 8:14 am

Tal Ormanda · **Posted:** February 18th, 2008, 6:48 pm

Everyones trying to get rid of pirates these days.

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Yarr...Pirates rule the Internets. Enjoy, or leave :wink:

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** February 19th, 2008, 5:20 pm

That'll do nothing. People who pirate already use the site's search engine. Plus.. who the hell uses Yahoo search?

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

Mushroom Queen wrote:

That'll do nothing. People who pirate already use the site's search engine. Plus.. who the hell uses Yahoo search?

If this were digg, I'd digg that :wink:

If anyone listens to anything in the TWiT lineup, they'd know that Leo Laporte has been saying that there was a study performed, that shows the only people who use Yahoo are lower-income, are rural, or are stuck on some Yahoo internet service. The majority of the higher educated people use Google (not to mention Google is just plain better

)

Marking22 · **Posted:** February 19th, 2008, 9:14 pm

what is pirate bay?

Adbot · **Posted:** February 19th, 2008, 9:14 pm

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

If you don't know, I'm seriously surprised you haven't Googled. Google Search

TPB is a site that indexes .torrent files, and allows users to download them, as well as view the file's details and discuss.

Cowboyofdeath · **Posted:** February 20th, 2008, 9:44 pm

Pfkninenines wrote:

Mushroom Queen wrote:

That'll do nothing. People who pirate already use the site's search engine. Plus.. who the hell uses Yahoo search?

If this were digg, I'd digg that :wink:

If anyone listens to anything in the TWiT lineup, they'd know that Leo Laporte has been saying that there was a study performed, that shows the only people who use Yahoo are lower-income, are rural, or are stuck on some Yahoo internet service. The majority of the higher educated people use Google (not to mention Google is just plain better

)

My mom uses Google search but she still uses Yahoo! Mail, which irritates me a bit because I find it, and everything Yahoo! owns, annoying and crappy.

I hope Yahoo! burns in the future.

MattVortex · **Posted:** February 21st, 2008, 9:24 am

I don't agree with this at all. It amounts to censoring, and nothing should ever be censored, in my opinion. Ever.

Although, tbh, I never really liked the pirate bay. I have never got a decent torrent off there. I used to use demonoid, but now use mininova. I do respect the work that the people running it have done with a lot of their other projects, but TPB isn't really that great.