Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 2, 2014 @06:52AM from the system-and-method-to-break-the-internet dept.

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.

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Streisand Effect? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-02 07:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

But I assume they aren't going to block the glut of articles about this landmark event? So his name will be far more well-known than if it was only mentioned in a 2007 article. Brilliant.