Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forgotten at Google

Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by matt4077 on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:05PM (#16471010)

That seems like a problem such a startup would love to have.

In any case, one cost-saving advice would be to piggy-back on Google's process: simply check if they delisted the search result and follow. I can't think of a specific law this would actually infringe.

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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by greglindahl on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:29PM (#16471079)

Google takes active counter-measures against the sort of automated queries that this would involve. It's also against their TOS, and might be considered criminal in some places.

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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by yorwba on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:18PM (#16471049)

Does Google have a public API to check for URL delisting, or are you thinking about bending the search API for that?

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Re:Insights on the First Three Years of the Right to Be Forg... by ocdtrekkie on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:30PM (#16471081)

If I were to try to implement this, I'd safely assume any link I'm asked to delist, Google was also asked to delist. Therefore, if I can't find it in Google Search with a query where the page in question should be the top or only result, it means Google delisted it.

That being said, I don't feel anyone should assume Google's decisions are inherently right, and do something just because Google did it.

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