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Google has received nearly 350,000 URL removal requests so far

Google has received nearly 350,000 URL removal requests so far

November 26, 2015

Via: Mashable
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In May 2014, Google complied with the EU’s ruling that enabled citizens to request certain URLs to be removed from search results.

A year and a half later, in its bi-annual Transparency Report, Google has announced it received 348,085 such requests, the bulk of them coming from France and Germany, followed by the UK, Spain and Italy.

The total number of URLs Google has evaluated for removal is 1,234,092. Google does not give exact numbers on how many of those it actually removed, but it says that 42% of the URLs that have been “fully processed” have been removed.

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