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Google especially tends to give in pretty easily to these outside pressures. Look what they've done for MPAA/RIAA over the years. They've automated the DMCA process for them for both Google search and Youtube, even though they weren't compelled to do so.

I bet they also believe they've washed their hands off this because they "report" these DMCA takedowns. Yeah, thanks Google - for creating an automated censorship system that no Court or law asked you to create.

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A DMCA takedown request isn't talking about a URL -- it's talking about content. Google is likely saving themselves lifetimes of human effort (and the associated salaries) that would have to go into manual screening. I imagine content ID is necessary for YouTube to exist sustainably -- not a gift to RIAA/MPAA.

No, they remove search results as well. See chillingeffects.org.

A DMCA takedown request requires "Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material." Generally, this means that the company submitting the takedown provides a specific list of URLs with infringing content. They can't just say "videos infringing on x exist on your site, go find them", and the safe harbor provision of the DMCA means that Google isn't responsible for hunting down infringement on their own.

You are conflating and confusing things.

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