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Links to Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay's homepage have disappeared from Yahoo's search results. Pirate Bay cofounder Brokep had some harsh words for Yahoo:

It's dangerous to trust a company like Yahoo when they filter the searches. It's a new China, but this time Yahoo is the dictator. Yahoo should let the governments decide, not themselves. It's dangerous when companies take the law into their own hands.

Searches on Google and Windows Live Search return links to The Pirate Bay as the top result.

There are a host of reasons Yahoo might have removed The Pirate Bay; it may have objected to the site's enablement of file sharing, or it might simply have viewed the site as poorly designed. So picky, those Yahoos! We filled out one of Yahoo's PR-bot forms but have yet to hear back from a human who can explain what happened.