Google is the ultimate source of knowledge in the modern era, but that sneaky Google is also hiding a few things from us. Gasp.
Hidden From Google is a website that reveals some of the pages and sites not indexed by Google EU, whether they were taken down for legal or safety reasons, such is the case where the European Court of Justice ruled people could have articles about them deleted from the results of specific search terms.
“There is an information gap there and, where you can verify examples, you can curate a list,” said Afaq Tariq, the US web developer who set up the site in June this year.
“It is not as if the links are going away, it is just Google results within Europe that they are removed from, so you have this before-and-after picture with Google US,” he said.
“Some seem to have been removed, but are not any longer – that is part of the reason the list remains short. Until I can verify that an article is being censored consistently across European domains, I cannot put it on the list in good conscience,” he said.
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