During a meeting with European private regulators in Brussels, Google said it's granted the requests of a number of individuals to remove links about them from Google's European search results.

Around tens of thousands, possibly even more than 100,000 links have been removed.

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This July, a private-equity investor from the Netherlands was one of the individuals whose removal request was granted. He was mentioned in a story 16 years ago about a Tantric sex workshop. Because of the new "right to be forgotten" ruling, his request was granted and the story was taken down.

The man said that the story "could and in fact is having a material effect on my career."

The links Google has removed so far are said to be more than 50 percent of the links being processed for removal under the "right to be forgotten" ruling.

Google asked for more information on 15 percent of the individuals who requested to be removed. Around 30 percent of those who requested removal were rejected.

In May, the European Union's top court made a decision to grant users the "right to be forgotten" -- at least, when it comes to search engine results.

The right allows people in Europe to request the removal of their names and information from search engines.

Google started taking removal requests in late May. Since then, the company has received requests from 91,000 people covering 328,000 URLs.

Currently, Google said that the rate at which links are being removed is still preliminary and may still change in the coming months.

Although Google claims that the rate of link removal may change, analysts believe this is a clear indication of the company's general interpretation of the ruling. The broad interpretation may lead to a broader scope regarding the new right.

Companies such as Microsoft Corporation and European politicians who want to push for a more stringent version of the right are watching Google's next moves very closely.

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