Internet giant, Google has announced that it is removing URLs from its search function and has also released a new edition of its Transparency Report today pointing out who is requesting URLs to be taken out of the search results.

The copyright owners regularly requests Google to remove URLs from its search results. All the URLs that are being removed is alleged to be copyrighted or pirated material mostly from software and entertainment companies.

Google has been releasing its Transparency Report since two years but earlier reports only showed government requests to remove content as well as disruptions in the search engine's traffic patterns. The report did not focus on piracy and copyright issues.

The report shows that Google Microsoft is the No. 1 complainer of copyright infringement with a total of 2,544,209 URLs removal requests. Microsoft is just ahead of NBCUniversal, RIAA, British Recorded Music Industry, and Elegant Angel pornographic film studio.

Google's senior copyright counsel Fred von Lohmann said in a blog post today said, “As you can see from the report, the number of requests has been increasing rapidly. These days it's not unusual for us to receive more than 250,000 requests each week, which is more than what copyright owners asked us to remove in all of 2009. In the past month alone, we received about 1.2 million requests made on behalf of more than 1,000 copyright owners to remove search results.”