Concerning "It seems people in Germany and France were particularly keen on nixing links to their social media and directory details, while British and Italian people were three times more likely than others to target information on news websites."
One or the many things about GDPR I'm not sure of, from the point of view of a search engine/site is:
why would GDPR change anything related to links to news-sites?
Meaning:
one of the main tasks of a search engine is find news related to the search subject => hosting and using such information is therefore absolutely part of the core activities of the search engine => why is then google (and other search engines) willing to delete such infos?
One or the many things about GDPR I'm not sure of, from the point of view of a search engine/site is: why would GDPR change anything related to links to news-sites?
Meaning: one of the main tasks of a search engine is find news related to the search subject => hosting and using such information is therefore absolutely part of the core activities of the search engine => why is then google (and other search engines) willing to delete such infos?
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