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Well you see the internet is a series of tubes...

In all seriousness though, in the UK credit record agencies can only keep 6 years of financial information - a search engine is not subject to any regulation around this and could for example return an insolvency event from 16 years ago.

Reding is saying this is a double standard and infringes on an EU citizens rights and that they'd like to regulate this.

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A search engine does not know how old the contents of a page are. They'd have to diff different versions of a page, which is not foolproof; for html it's particularly noisy compared to, say, code. Even when that strategy works, or when there's only one version of a page, it's only possible to determine when the search engine first saw a piece of content, not when that piece of content was created.

In contrast, things on a credit history are dated.

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