Google’s Right to be Forgotten came into play over a year ago now thanks to a European court ruling forcing Google to comply with requests from individuals to remove their names from search results; and originally started off by by Spaniard Mario Costeja González who wanted Google to remove search results that pointed to online articles about his home being repossessed.

A year later Google has published a transparency report showcasing some pretty interesting data:

  • Google recieved a total of 255,143 requests referring to 925.586 URLs
  • Google rejected 58.7% of these requests.
  • 6853 URLs were from Facebook.com
  • 3951 URLs were from Youtube.com
  • 2870 URLs were from Google+
  • 2578 URLs were from Twitter

For those of you affected by Google’s Right to be Forgotten – I urge you to check out the transparency report for yourself here.

Published by Michael Boguslavskiy

Michael Boguslavskiy is a full-stack developer & online presence consultant based out of New York City. He's been offering freelance marketing & development services for over a decade. He currently manages Rapid Purple - and online webmaster resources center; and Media Explode - a full service marketing agency.

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