“One of those steps was to remove “terms that are closely associated with piracy” from autocompletes”

I’d like to point out the fact that “parley” still pops up.

“a representative of RapidShare states: ‘A search engine’s results should reflect the users’ interests and not Google’s or anybody else’s?'”

I’m not sure I agree with this. Who are we to tell a private company what their product should do? It would be in the customer’s interest (mine) for their to be a steak buffet at Outback … but I don’t get to make decisions for a private company.

Having said that, it is in the best interests of Google to provide the search results their users want. And I’m not fan of censorship.