Blog post criticising former Merrill Lynch boss is "forgotten" by Google
Mr. Peston is wrong. Searching google.com rather than www.google.co.uk will still get the story.This morning, BBC journalist Robert Peston received a “notice of removal” from Google, informing him that an article that he had published in 2007 about former Merrill Lynch boss Stan O'Neal would no longer be shown in European Google search results.Titled “Merrill's Mess”, the piece describes how O'Neal was forced to leave the investment bank after it endured significant losses on the back of careless investments.In May this year, the European Court of Justice ordered that anyone could apply to have search results relating to them deleted from Google under the new “right to be forgotten” rule. It said that Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it.As Peston pointed out in a follow-up article earlier today, this effectively means that no one will see the blog post from now on. “To all intents and purposes the article has been removed from the public record, given that Google is the route to information and stories for most people,” he wrote....MORE
Today's word is Eurocentric.
