Apparently Not Too Many People In Europe Care About Having Microsoft's Bing 'Forget' Them
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).
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IFPI demands 4.5 million links removed.
**AA's demand 1000 bajillion links be removed.
Random newspaper sued Google for kajillions for daring to point people at them and make them relevant.
UK MP claims Google making trillions from piracy advertising to build moonbase to hide laser cannon to destroy children.
(what, I'm sure this will be a headline in that one UK paper shortly)
People are starting to equate Google with the Internet.
Something bad happens online and it always is Google's fault.
Google always finds a mention in news stories, lawsuits, public criers screaming how home taping is killing the music industry.
Well that and Bing is well... ummm... not that good.
Their claim to fame for a while is we load awesome pictures behind your results, making your searches take that much longer to load on your laughable connection speeds.
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It is our understanding that you are working on an appeals process to allow websites to contest a submission based on the Right to be Forgotten to get their website put back onto the internet.
In the meantime, we are hoping that you have a manual process as our website http://www.bing.com has apparently been removed from the internet. Please let us know what documentation you need to make this site available to Europeans again as soon as possible.
- Microsoft
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You gotta remember how Bing gets its results...
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"What's a 'Bing'?"
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Cause & effect
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I was trying to find some videogame guide I had read before, and I tried it on Bing to give it a try. I gave up after a few minutes of trying, I couldn't even find an alternate link that was just as good or better then the link I was looking for.
I switched to google and ran the same search, the first search I did found the guide I was looking for.
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there, fixed the headline for you
The thing is, most people here don't think about Microsofts searchengine at all. It is simply a non issue because barely anyone uses it at all. You have a better chance to find users of duckduckgo or yacy in any given population than users using bing.
Bing is simply not relevant in europe.
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