The right to have search results delisted was constructed to solve a specific problem — the person whose long-past bankruptcy or acquittal dominates every search for their name — and it addresses that problem reasonably well. The difficulty is that the mechanism does not distinguish that person from a professional whose past conduct is precisely what someone searching has a legitimate interest in finding. Delisting decisions are made in the first instance by the companies operating the search engines, which are private bodies applying a public-interest test with no obligation to publish their reasoning and every incentive to comply rather than litigate. A remedy has been created, and the balancing it requires has been delegated to the party with the least interest in getting it right. A public interest test applied in private by an interested party is not obviously a test at all.