FTA > He also asked Google to remove links to the website, as well as a short extract from the site, on the search engine’s results page. Emphasis mine. I'd a

FTA > He also asked Google to remove links to the website, as well as a short extract from the site, on the search engine’s results page. Emphasis mine. I'd argue laws and rulings can be contradictory in the first place, that's one reason there's judges. But here it's simpler than that: it's not just about linking, and the defamatory part was probably visible without having to follow the link.