Google has issued a new report showing that it receives more than 1.2 million takedown requests for search results each month. The chief complainer, by a wide margin, is Microsoft, who claimed a copyright violation on over 500,000 of those infringing search results. But using Google's new transparency tool, which lets anyone sift through the takedown requests, Techdirt discovered that links to pirated Xbox content, which Google took down at Microsoft's request, remain alive and well on Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Over the last year the number of takedown notices sent to Google each week has practically doubled. The number one organization demanding takedowns from Google is one of Microsoft's neighbors in Redmond, Washington, a firm...
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