Pirate Bay and other torrent sites are the target of a major new crackdown into online piracy.

Google has made it more difficult for people searching for pirated content to access the torrent sites.

Previously if users searched for terms such as “best torrent sites” or “top ten torrent sites” they would be presented with Google’s rotating carousel feature, which listed some of the biggest and most visited torrent sites at the top of its search results.

Some of the sites listed included the Pirate Bay, IsoHunt and Rarbg.

However, Google has now said that it will stop displaying illegal torrent sites in its search carousel.

It said the error was because the results were “generated algorithmically” and that it did not “reflect what [the company]had in mind for this feature”, the Next Web reported.

According to reports, it wasn’t only torrent sites that would appear in the results carrousel.

Illegal streaming services were also listed alongside legitimate streaming sites.

But Google has now said that not only will illegal torrent sites and streaming services will be filtered out of search results, they will no longer feature in the carrousel.

Tech companies are facing increasing pressure to help tackle online piracy and illegal streaming.

Earlier this year Facebook and Amazon announced that they would no longer allow the so called ‘fully loaded Kodi boxes’ to be sold on their platforms.

Facebook has also taken steps in trying to tackle the problem of video piracy on the social network.

The social network has faced increased criticism from content creators that it does not do enough to tackle those who pass other people’s video content off as their own.

Last week, Facebook revealed it had bought the rights to a tech startup which develops software that is capable of detecting when pirated content has been posted on the site without permission.