In a statement which implies that the US recording industry is disappointed with Google anti-piracy efforts, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recently said that there has thus far been "no evidence" to show that the Internet search giant has effectively executed any plans to demote sites that feature pirated content.

Pointing out that Google's attempts to rid its search engine of sites which facilitate piracy have been far from impressive, the RIAA said in its statement that even though tens of millions of copyright removal requests have been sent to Google during the last six-month period, the company has failed to adequately demote pirated-content-laden sites.

The displeasure of the RIAA and the recording industry in general stems from the fact that Google had, in August last year, pledged that it would bring about a change in its search ranking in such a way that websites which have received a high number of valid copyright removal notices would be demoted.

While pledging the mentioned move, Google had said that websites featuring copyrighted content "may" be demoted in search results, so as to facilitate the users in finding "legitimate, quality sources of content."

However, as per the RIAA, even after six months of Google's pledge, the recording industry has found "no evidence that Google's policy has had a demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large amounts of piracy" because such sites continue to "consistently appear at the top of Google's search results for popular songs or artists."