Last week, we covered the story of Camping Alfaques , a Spanish vacation spot whose owner recently sued Google in a local court. His concern: top search results that feature grisly images ( note: thumbnail versions of a few appear in a screenshot below ) of dead bodies from an old tragedy. Such cases have so many implications for the future of search engines and the companies who depend on them that we spoke to the owner of Camping Alfaques to learn more about his situation. He told us what led him to sue Google, how much the case matters to him, and why he doesn’t want anything “deleted” from the ‘Net—just relocated. Mario Gianni Masiá, now the owner of an oceanfront vacation spot called ” Camping Alfaques ” in southern Spain, was a child in 1978 when a tanker truck exploded into a fireball on the road just beyond the site. 23 tons of fuel ignited, immediately turning 200 campers to ash and badly burning several hundred more. Safely on the other side of the camp, Mario was unscathed

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"Algorithms can have errors": One man’s quest to purge horrific pictures from his Google results