“Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results,” says Google SVP, Engineering, Amit Singhal.

Google will start looking at how many times a site gets copyright removal requests, and use that in how they rank it.

Automatically, my brain had a bright idea: I start a company that sends Google copyright removal requests.

Why? Because Google automatically assumes that if a request was made, a copyright infringement did, indeed, occur. Guilty by virtue of being charged. The new American Way?

Also, will Google stop ranking youtube videos lower? Because, I'm betting there's a lot of stuff that infringes on copyrights people post there. Wait, no. There will be nowhere you can lodge a copyright infringement against Google owned properties! Duh!