B
Evidence Grade B
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20%
20% -- organic search traffic decline for Piracy websites (global) (2020-05)
Pirate sites experienced a 20% drop in search traffic during May 2020 alone following Google's core algorithm update.
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Value
20%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2020-05
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
90
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
TorrentFreak / MUSO
Primary
Tier B
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-censors-piratey-searches/27563/ ↗
Source Article
Google Censors "Piratey" Searches
Original Research
TorrentFreak / MUSO
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Methodology
Single-month decline coinciding with Google's May 4, 2020 core algorithm update; MUSO tracking data reported via TorrentFreak
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Piracy websites (global): 20% organic search traffic decline. Source: TorrentFreak / MUSO (2020-05). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pirate-sites-search-traffic-may-2020-core-update-drop
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/pirate-sites-search-traffic-may-2020-core-update-drop" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>20%</strong> -- organic search traffic decline for Piracy websites (global)<br><small>Source: TorrentFreak / MUSO (2020-05) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/pirate-sites-search-traffic-may-2020-core-update-drop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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