Apparently Not Too Many People In Europe Care About Having Microsoft's Bing 'Forget' Them (original) (raw)

from the bing-is-already-forgotten dept

It’s no secret that Google has a much larger market share than Microsoft’s Bing search engine — especially in Europe where Google has been much more successful than its competitors. However, Bing and other search engines are still subject to the terrible EU Court of Justice ruling on the right to be forgotten, which has resulted in Google removing a bunch of links. As we noted, Google was flooded with requests, and had to set up a process and staff to handle them all — something it hasn’t done a very good job with so far.

So, what’s Microsoft doing? Well, it’s taking it’s time, but is promising to get a request form similar to Google’s up. It doesn’t sound like it’s going to have to hire a very big staff to do so, because it appears that Microsoft’s biggest concern in Europe may be more that it’s been forgotten by Europeans. Almost no one is asking Bing to forget them:

When Google released its web form on May 30, for instance, it received about 12,000 requests within the first 24 hours. Microsoft is thought to have received fewer than 20 requests that day.

Ouch. That’s almost insulting. Hell, even we received a request under that ruling (though a bogus one).

Filed Under: bing, europe, right to forget
Companies: google, microsoft