"Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of webpages, images, videos, news and much more, " said Amit Singhal in the firm's official blog.

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In a post Friday on Google's blog, Amit Singhal, a top search executive, said Google's Web "search algorithms, " which determine how websites are ranked in search results, would now take into account the number of valid copyright removal notices that Google receives for a particular site.

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