You can now stop reporting ffn.net spam mirror sites to Google…

feliciacraft:

I’m talking about the following sites as previously reported on Tumblr:

They’re getting addressed! Yay! If you check search results, some of the sites have been removed completely from Google since Monday. Take thanfiction.org (do not visit site!) for example, how many of their stolen fanfiction.net stories now show up in Google? Zero:

While the sites themselves have not been taken down, and your content still lives on illegally on their site, they’re probably getting a lot less traffic from casual searches. Do a happy dance and congratulate yourself on making it happen LIKE A BOSS!!

Compare this to Bing, which returns 6080 results (so that you know the removal on Google is deliberate):

I’m not aware of a way of reporting spam sites to Bing to get them removed from search results. The best I can find from Microsoft Bing’s support site says only that, “Bing doesn’t control the content that websites publish or that appears in Bing search results. To make sure content is removed from search results, your best option is to contact the webmaster for the website that published the content and request that it be deleted or removed.”

(If you know of a way of reporting spam websites to Bing to have their content removed from Bing’s search results, please share.)