Since a top European court ruled people have a right to be forgotten online, Google has received 348,085 requests for tidbits to vanish from search results.
In the report released on Wednesday, Google said that right-to-be-forgotten requests have targeted slightly more than 1.23 million Internet pages , and that it agreed to remove 42 per cent of them from online search results in Europe.
Meanwhile, the report indicated that Google granted about 38 per cent of the 43,101 requests submitted in the United Kingdom; 37 per cent of the 33,106 requests in Spain, and just shy of 30 per cent of the 26,186 requests made in fifth-placed Italy.
Google said it complied with nearly 46 per cent of the 10,121 requests in Belgium, nearly 41 per cent of the 9,687 requests in Sweden, and about 45 per cent of the 8,339 requests in Switzerland.
