“We are surprised and disappointed to discover Kodi has been removed from autocomplete, as Kodi is perfectly legal open source software,” Nathan Betzen the president of the XBMC Foundation said. Unsurprisingly, the team behind Kodi isn’t best pleased about the move. This action is consistent with that long-standing strategy,” the company told TorrentFreak. “Since 2011, we have been filtering certain terms closely associated with copyright infringement from Google Autocomplete. Related: Kodi users slapped with Joshua vs Parker streaming warning Relevant search suggestions only appear when you type in “kodi” and add a space. Similarly, typing in “kodi” brings up “kodiak bear”, “kodiak”, “kodiaq” and “kodiapps”. The company has removed the term “kodi” from the autocomplete feature of its search engine, because it is “closely associated with copyright infringement”.Īs spotted by TorrentFreak, when you type “kod” into Google search, you’ll see suggestions like “kodak black”, “kodiak bear” and “kody brown” pop up, but there’ll be no sign of “kodi”. Google is trying to make it harder for people to search for Kodi, despite the software being perfectly legal.

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