We're all aware of the 'right to be forgotten' law which Google has had in place for some time now. In case you've lived under a rock for a few years it means that people can request that Google removes articles, stories and news reports that may show them in a difficult light. Hundreds of thousands of links have now been deleted by the search engine, and it's going to be a never ending task. The ruling only applies to Europe however, so it's always been fairly easy to get around by searching on the .com version of the search engine (or any version that's not European) in order to see the uncensored version. However, from mid February (ie. about now) this work around will cease to be effective. Google is going to be checking the IP address of the searcher, and if they are based in Europe, they will get the censored set of results. This leads to a two tier approach based on geography, since non-Europeans coming to European countries will be subject to the same restrictions.
However, it should still be possible to work around the system by visiting a third party search engine such as DuckDuckGo and running a search on Google, or using a multi search engine that will do the same thing. It's not perfect, but it should still work. If that fails, then you can always 'spoof' your IP address to make it appear as though you're based in the US. If this is as far as Google can be pushed is something that we'll have to wait and see, or if they will cave into further European pressure and delete all the links in a global purge.
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