Number of URLs in delisting requests totalled 2.44 million from 655,000 individual requests, or roughly 3.7 URLs per request. Percentage of URLs Google accepted for removal has remained steady at between 42% and 44% every year. The top 1,000 requesters (0.25% of the total) accounted for nearly 15% of requests, 20% of which were accepted. For news sites the rate dropped to 32%, with government sites on 19%. Google has dramatically improved the speed with which it processes URLs.”]