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In terms of reporting copyright violations, one company in particular stands out (AudioLock.Net), accounting for 28.1 percent of all reports sent to Google (the top ten companies combined were responsible for 61.3 percent of the total number of reports).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>As not every request can be published, the study is based only what is publicly available. Also, the data assigned to Poland is only based on the ccTLD domain name (.pl); other domain extensions for Polish internet users were not considered.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This is first global analysis of data from transparency reports published by search engine companies as prior research has been based on specific notices.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/ajim-05-2018-0108","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,19]],"date-time":"2018-10-19T08:59:20Z","timestamp":1539939560000},"page":"54-71","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Website removal from search engines due to copyright violation"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"71","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3487-0971","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Artur","family":"Strzelecki","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2020092516071624200_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Allgrove, B. and Ganley, P. 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