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12 October 2014
Last updated at 01:18 ET
It said 18,304 requests were made in the UK, the third highest in the EU.
It follows a European Court of Justice ruling that links to irrelevant and outdated data can be erased on request.
The ruling sparked criticisms over censorship of material.
According to data released on its website, Google removed 35% - or 18,459 - of unwanted links to web pages following requests from the UK.
A right to be forgotten?
It said it had turned down requests from a UK public official who wanted a link to a student organisation's petition demanding his removal taken down.
Google also rejected the request of a former clergyman from the UK who asked for two links to articles about an investigation into sexual abuse accusations about him to be removed.
It said a UK "media professional" had requested the removal of four links to articles reporting on "embarrassing content he posted to the internet", a request the search engine also turned down.
A doctor had requested more than 50 links to newspaper articles about a botched procedure be removed, it said.
Google said "three pages that contained personal information about the doctor but did not mention the procedure have been removed from search results for his name", but "the rest of the links to reports on the incident remain in search results".
It said a news summary of a man who was convicted at a magistrates' court had been removed as, under the UK Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, his conviction had been spent.
Facebook was the site most impacted , with 3,353 links removed across Europe, while YouTube was second, with 2,392 URLs deleted.
by Emily Straton, Tamara Kachelmeier, and Biodun Iginla, BBC News Analysts
One
in 10 requests for web links to be removed from search results under
European "right to be forgotten" laws have come from the UK, Google has
said.
Google said it had removed 498,737 links from search results
since May this year - including 63,616 pages following requests from the
UK.It said 18,304 requests were made in the UK, the third highest in the EU.
It follows a European Court of Justice ruling that links to irrelevant and outdated data can be erased on request.
The ruling sparked criticisms over censorship of material.
According to data released on its website, Google removed 35% - or 18,459 - of unwanted links to web pages following requests from the UK.
- In 2012, the European Commission published plans for a "right to be forgotten" law, allowing people to request that data about themselves to be deleted
- Online service providers would have to comply unless they had "legitimate" reason to do otherwise
- The plans are part of a wide-ranging overhaul of the commission's 1995 Data Protection Directive
- UK's Ministry of Justice claims that the law "raises unrealistic and unfair expectations"
- Some tech firms have expressed concern about the reach of the bill
It said it had turned down requests from a UK public official who wanted a link to a student organisation's petition demanding his removal taken down.
Google also rejected the request of a former clergyman from the UK who asked for two links to articles about an investigation into sexual abuse accusations about him to be removed.
It said a UK "media professional" had requested the removal of four links to articles reporting on "embarrassing content he posted to the internet", a request the search engine also turned down.
A doctor had requested more than 50 links to newspaper articles about a botched procedure be removed, it said.
Google said "three pages that contained personal information about the doctor but did not mention the procedure have been removed from search results for his name", but "the rest of the links to reports on the incident remain in search results".
It said a news summary of a man who was convicted at a magistrates' court had been removed as, under the UK Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, his conviction had been spent.
Facebook was the site most impacted , with 3,353 links removed across Europe, while YouTube was second, with 2,392 URLs deleted.
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