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I shouldn't be sharing this, but people are exploiting Google DMCA takedowns with fake law firms. “The DMCA abuse inside Google to remove pages from search is starting to get...
Shouldn't be sharing this, but people are exploiting Google DMCA takedowns with fake law firms. The DMCA abuse inside Google to remove pages from search is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. Google de-indexed a legitimate page because a fake law firm own the page to a new dot info domain.
Then lie to Google that they originally created the content. This, by the way, comes from Charles Float. Google process this removal.
No verification, not even a logic check on jurisdiction or content. Google won't fix it because they'd have to publicly acknowledge the weakness in their DMCA system, which would create a flood of new abuse. The exact same happened already on YouTube, which they still haven't really cleaned up either.
Fake legal entities plus automated DMCA scripts equal instant de-index on legit businesses platforms and review profiles. There are dozens of these fake law firms, each filing dozens of fake takedowns per day with no oversight at all. It's seemingly gotten worse now people have figured out they can automate the submissions with AI.
All I can say is I hope this gets fixed soon.
Search visibility can be attacked through fake takedown or deindexing abuse, not only through normal ranking changes.
Monitor critical pages for sudden deindexing, keep authorship and ownership evidence, and document escalation paths for false takedown events.
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Shouldn't be sharing this, but people are exploiting Google DMCA takedowns with fake law firms.