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I agree, as it seems like it allows people to basically curate their google results so that only positive things appear about them. I agree there should be cir
by genericuser 12y ago
I agree, as it seems like it allows people to basically curate their google results so that only positive things appear about them.
I agree there should be circumstances where content should be removed from indexes but if the content publisher is not required to remove it, and it is legal content, why should google or other search engine providers have to stop indexing it?
What I believe would be a functional system would be that a court order for the content publisher to take down the content should also require google to quit indexing the content, so cached versions aren't able to be found and in case the publisher doesn't comply. But that having a ruling that google has to act as a gatekeeper to legal and already public content about an individual because they feel it is not relevant any longer does seem like a dangerous precedent.
- joshlegs 12y agoReally, this is an age-old problem. Journalists have had to deal with this for years. The general consensus was that if it's true, tough crap. The difference between journalism and google is that anybody can google someone. Journalists generally had to spend a lot of time digging up someone's past. The "problem" is just how efficient Google (and other web crawlers) have been at aggregating data. And I'm kind of on the fence about that
- thirdsun 12y agoExactly, it's actually quite similar to those infamous porn dns filters. If there is a plausible reason why not remove the source? The ruling as I understand it just alters the map while the city is still there.