Oh - I can't tell you about that!

What do you make of this "right to be forgotten" ruling against Google?  A man complained that, when he searched for his name on Google, one of the links which came up was a newspaper report from 1998 about his then house being up for sale by auction to pay his debts, and as this was now history and not representative of his current situation, Google should remove the link - and the European Court has ruled in his favour.  But the ruling relates just to the link, you understand - the newspaper report will continue to be there, it's just that Google will not be able to tell you it's there. But as Google is a search engine, it's whole raison d'être is to search the internet and report what it finds, so the judgment effectively means that Google can't do its job - weird eh?