Google's released a list of copyright-related take-down requests - and nearly half of them came from Microsoft, it says.
The company's now including requests related to copyright in its Transparency Report figures - because, it says, these form the greatest proportion of take-downs.
And, it says, of the total 1.2 million requests for URLs to be removed from the company's search results in the last month, Microsoft was responsible for 540,000.
Overall, it's asked for more than two and a half million links to be removed in the last year.
Next on the list come NBC Universal, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), porn company Froytal Services and the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI).
The number of takedown requests has been increasing dramatically over the last couple of years. Almost all - 97 percent - are found to be valid, and the average take-down time is just 11 hours.
"These days it
The company's now including requests related to copyright in its Transparency Report figures - because, it says, these form the greatest proportion of take-downs.
And, it says, of the total 1.2 million requests for URLs to be removed from the company's search results in the last month, Microsoft was responsible for 540,000.
Overall, it's asked for more than two and a half million links to be removed in the last year.
Next on the list come NBC Universal, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), porn company Froytal Services and the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI).
The number of takedown requests has been increasing dramatically over the last couple of years. Almost all - 97 percent - are found to be valid, and the average take-down time is just 11 hours.
"These days it