As The New York Times notes, how the ruling would affect countries outside of the EU (including the United States) is anyone's guess -- including how removal requests would be handled from, say, a person in Canada. WSJ's sources say that Mountain View might find a way to implement the ruling without actually applying it globally. How's that? By basing search results on the searcher's IP address. Say someone in the UK did a search for Stanley O'Neal, their results would likely be different than someone doing the same search in Austria, for example. Elegant solution or additional complication? We'll see what the EU has to say.