Origin of complaints to Google

Johannes Beus
Google is known for trying to match their respective country searches to the regional legal conditions of the country in question. Google's demeanor in China has shown that this is not always easy and that it can also backfire. To paint this at least as partially reputable actions, Google publishes these requests to remove sites from the search over at ChillingEffects.org, the site of Wendy Seltzer, law professor at the Brooklyn Law School. Out of curiosity, I evaluated these data for their countries of origin. The countries were associated to the data as much as was possible. Most of the requests did not have a country of origin and are probably from the USA – the home of the DMCA and the plague of lawyers.


Its interesting to see the how big the lead is that complaints from Germany have ...
Johannes Beus - on Fri (02/16/2007) at 20:24 PM

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