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It won't take long before a UK search for Dougie McDonald shows the article talking about how the articles about Dougie McDonald have been removed from Google, and what those articles are about.

Google tells the media which articles are being expunged, the media writes about the articles Google expunged and then Google indexes these pages in their search results. Interesting process.

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That process is happening right now, and it is interesting. But will it continue, aka is it a viable long term workaround? Articles being removed is new and in a sense exciting for the press, Google, and the public- that probably won't be so in a few months or years.

Maybe every media company should have a summary page for each of their articles that have been removed from Google. And Google should prioritize those summary pages in its searches.

That would be great. Can this easily be automated so companies don't have to do anything and the result is there, helping people?

Presumably, Dougie McDonald will in turn request those pages be disassociated from his name in Google's search index. Interesting to note that plenty of other non-Guardian results relating to his duplicitous behaviour currently appear when searching for his name [1] [2] [3]; will those too disappear in the near future? I have a feeling a lot of articles about Dougie McDonald are about to spring up; this is the first I've heard of the case. Has Dougie McDonald not heard of the Streisand effect? [4]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9143508.s... [2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1333950/Re... [3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/celtic/80980... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Already happened.

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