Europe appears to have missed the target in its dispute with Google over reputations which some people want to forget.
Google shows you everything there is on whatever you search for. Not everything except what Joe Bloggs wants you to see, or everything some government wants you to see. Everything.
If you are in the everything business, being told to change to become the everything but business is a big deal.
And if Joe Bloggs is upset because something embarrassing is out there, whose responsibility is to sort that out? The government's? Google's or Joe Bloggs'?
Google helps Joe Bloggs to sort out his problem. It shows him where the embarrassing item is. He can ask that website to remove it.
If you tell Google to remove it from its search results, it will still be visible to those who use Bing, or Yahoo or any of the other search engines. Will Europe tell them to show everything but, too?
The simplest solution is to remove the offending item. Then no search engines will find it.
The best person to ask for it to be removed is the person who is offended.
Bashing big business is not always the best solution.
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