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Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches
Albanach writes: In 2007, the BBC's economics editor, Robert Peston, penned an article on the massive losses at Merrill Lynch and the resulting resignation of their CEO Stan O'Neal. Today, the BBC has been notified that the 2007 article will no longer appear in some Google searches made within the European Union, apparently as a result of someone exercising their new-found "right to be forgotten." O'Neal was the only individual named in the 2007 article. While O'Neal has left Merrill Lynch, he has not left the world of business, and now holds a directorship at Alcoa, the world's third largest aluminum producer with $23 billion in revenues in 2013.
If Google is really just trying to show how flawed this is. After all, if you search him (I popped over to google.co.uk as I'm in the US) that blog certainly does not come up, but about the entire first page of hits (especially if you throw bbc in as well) is about how that page will not come up because of this ruling...
"Don't meddle in the affairs of a patent dragon, for thou art tasty and good with ketchup." ~ohcrapitssteve
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
Stan O'Neal, you will not be forgotten.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/leg...
etc.
Pass the word.