I wonder what the secondary incentive effects of this will be. I see three possibilities:
1. Encourage copyright owners to send more takedowns to Google Search, since those takedowns will be "more powerful".
2. Encourage targeted sites to send more counter-notifications since a Google Search takedown has an effect on an entire site's ranking, not just a particular link.
3. Encourage shared sites (hosting providers, etc.) to shut down particular users or areas that get a lot of Google Search takedowns, to stop the spillover effect on the rest of the site.
I don't know which of these effects will matter the most, but I suspect at least one of them will be behind a significant unexpected consequence of this change.
1. Encourage copyright owners to send more takedowns to Google Search, since those takedowns will be "more powerful".
2. Encourage targeted sites to send more counter-notifications since a Google Search takedown has an effect on an entire site's ranking, not just a particular link.
3. Encourage shared sites (hosting providers, etc.) to shut down particular users or areas that get a lot of Google Search takedowns, to stop the spillover effect on the rest of the site.
I don't know which of these effects will matter the most, but I suspect at least one of them will be behind a significant unexpected consequence of this change.