One of the ways to get noticed on the internet is by being relevant enough where Google will list you as one of the results in its search pages, but interestingly enough in a bid to draw attention to himself and his new work, an artist by the name of Dan Roach had submitted a request to Google, asking them to for the “right to be forgotten”.
The odd thing is that the link was an article about Roach himself which was neither disparaging nor offensive. In fact it was a piece written by Peter John of the Worcester News in which Roach and his was praised as being “excellent” and “very talented”. According to Roach in a statement he gave to Worcester News, “The decision to ask for the link to be removed from Google was based on no more than a wish to highlight my new work, rather than the old.”
Unfortunately the author of the original piece still appears to be slightly perplexed about Roach’s decision. “An artist wanting to remove part of his back catalogue did not strike us as the sort of principle that the European court of justice had in mind when it came up with the right to be forgotten ruling. Would Google remove early Hirsts or Monets on request?”
In all fairness this was a proposal that Google had originally opposed when it was first suggested, but due to the passing of the law by the EU Commission, Google (over in Europe) has no choice but to comply with such requests.