Last May, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Google users had the «Right to be Forgotten,» meaning they can petition Google to
remove search engine results about them.
Not exact matches
A Lockheed Martin expert on information security, posted an offer on behalf of his «two high profile clients» to get
search results concerning them
removed from
search engines... (more on http://olli-kalha.blogspot.com).
Unfortunately, you can't simply
remove a
result from
search engines.
If the
search engine bots suspect that you may be «keyword stuffing» your news release, then they might flag your content and
remove it from the
search results.
Except that the most lasting and obvious
result of the ban is that it will advance the market for established lenders because it makes the barrier to entry for new companies extremely high by
removing the ability to buy advertising, and increasing reliance on
Search Engine Optimization to attract new customers, which gives these more recognizable lenders an indisputable hand up.
The newspaper refused this request and Mr Costeja Gonzalez then asked Google Spain to
remove links to the article in its
search results when his name was entered into the Google
search engine.
The basic reason why the leader of
search engines has been
removing some snippets from
results is that it's constantly looking to provide higher - quality content to searchers.
The OPC believes that organizations (including
search engines) already engage in such balancing measures, and that
search engines in particular already have mechanisms in place to evaluate de-indexing requests and
remove potential harmful or illegal content from their
search results.
Search engines themselves acknowledge that their activities may involve personal information and they have policies to
remove certain kinds of personal information, such as social insurance numbers, from their
results.
The report explained that de-indexing is the process by which a web page, image or other online resource is
removed from
search engine results when an individual's name is entered as the
search term.
Michael Trkulja, a prominent member of the Yugoslav community in Australia and a music promoter, sued both
search engines for their failure to
remove search results which suggested he was a prominent member of the Melbourne underworld.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that individuals have the right to have
search engine results removed, where they may affect privacy rights.
«So far as concerns, next, the extent of the responsibility of the operator of the
search engine, the Court holds that the operator is, in certain circumstances, obliged to
remove links to web pages that are published by third parties and contain information relating to a person from the list of
results displayed following a
search made on the basis of that person's name.
A Committee of UK Members of Parliament has recommended that
search engines should have to
remove material from
search results that infringe privacy.
I've also
removed the options that were initially available — date range, number of
results — because Google no longer honours these requests for Custom
Search Engines... [more]
Google had been refusing to
remove the allegedly defamatory material from its
search engine results despite his requests, through a notice of application served to the company on Oct. 6 and followed by Niemela's personal requests via e-mail on Oct. 27 and 31.
Mr. Gonzalez requested that the information in question be
removed both from the site of the publisher who emitted the original content as well as from Google's
search engine results, for the reason that his monetary issues as described in these articles had already been resolved for several years and were thus no longer relevant.
In 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that European citizens had the right to request
search engines, such Google and Bing,
remove «inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive»
search results linked to their name.