The best search engine on the Internet, Google, has recently joined the fiasco and indexed a lot of webpages that contain the recently discovered HD-DVD decryption key. However, the search technology managed to filter the content pretty good but it seems like some results were ignored and appeared on the SERP for an ordinary search after the key. As you can see in the picture attached to the article, Google displays the HD-DVD decryption key on the second page of the results, the first being entirely clean with to sign of the crack. However, the entire serial number is displayed straight in the results so the user is able to read 100 percent of the key directly from the Google pages.

A few days ago, the Internet suffered a huge shock when the HD-DVD decryption key was published on the Internet. For example, Digg, the famous service, was assaulted by an incredible number of articles containing the serial number. As Digg is quickly indexed by Google, it was extremely difficult to filter all the content and publish only the proper results. For example, a simple search query on Google using the decryption number as a keyword returns no more than 553.000 results with Personalized Search turned off.

Shocking but true. Anyway, Google managed to do a great job and filtered an impressive amount of illegal content sent by major Internet websites. The Mountain View based firm was often criticized for its weak filters, many users sustaining the SafeFilter is not able to block all the harmful results. This time, Google proved it is a powerful search engine and remove 99 percent of the HD-DVD keys so the search engine is not quite the best place to look for the serial number.

Please note that Softpedia is not encouraging piracy so I decided to blur the keys displayed in the Google results.