Comments on: Delayed Search Database Updating Isn’t Defamation–Ferrell v. Yahoo and Google https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/08/delayed-search-database-updating-isnt-defamation-ferrell-v-yahoo-and-google.htm Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Right to be forgotten still not happening | Systemic Flaw https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/08/delayed-search-database-updating-isnt-defamation-ferrell-v-yahoo-and-google.htm#comment-1360 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:14:27 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=14640#comment-1360 […] From the article: […]

]]> By: John Gregory https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2015/08/delayed-search-database-updating-isnt-defamation-ferrell-v-yahoo-and-google.htm#comment-1358 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:03:00 +0000 http://blog.ericgoldman.org/?p=14640#comment-1358 I would not have thought that a small delay in removing a link to ‘outdated’ information in Europe would be a problem. ‘Outdated’ is not a one-day-or-the-next decision. The question these days is presumably how long it takes Google (or other search engines) to respond to a request to delete the link. Again, some reasonable amount of time to decide is unlikely to lead to liability.

The US decision does not seem to be a matter of simple timing, though – the court seems unsympathetic to the whole request. Presumably if the target of the link disappears, eventually the link will cease to work, subject to archives.

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