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Google recently provided some information about the volume of requests it receives to take down links to copyrighted material, and yes, they come to more than a quarter-million per week. In April, for example, Google says it received 1.2 million link removal requests from 1,000 copyright holders regarding content on 23,000 websites. To put this number in perspective, Google added that it gets more such requests each week than it received in all of 2009. The company’s Transparency Report, which tracks data for removal requests the company has received since 2011, is updated daily, and includes specific information on which copyright owners have had the most removal requests made on their behalf, which reporting organizations
make the requests, which domains are most often targeted in removal requests, and a record of each individual request.
