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By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – While Google may have been dismayed by the ramifications of a ruling in Europes top court last month upholding the right to be forgotten online, European authorities are also likely to be uncertain about how it will be implemented, privacy experts and lawyers say. The ruling, which compelled Google to remove links to a 16-year-old newspaper article about a Spanish mans bankruptcy, has demonstrated once again the difficulty of striking a balance between freedom of information and the right to privacy. The worlds most popular search engine, which handles more than 80 percent of all searches in Europe, took a first step in implementing the ruling last Thursday by putting up an online form allowing European citizens to request that links to information about them be removed from search results. But it is unclear how Google will deal with all the requests, especially given the broad criteria laid down by the court for the removal of search results.