Google products most affected by government content removal requests H1 2017-H1 2024

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Ani Petrosyan,
Feb 18, 2025

During the first half of 2024, YouTube was Google's most affected platform by global government content removal requests, with 55.4 percent of removal requests citing the source. Web Search accounted for 32.8 percent of government-related content removal requests.

Google products most affected by global government content removal requests as of 1st half 2024

CharacteristicYouTubeWeb SearchAll othersGoogle App EngineGoogle ImagesBloggerGoogle Docs
2024 H1 55.4% 32.8% 8.8% - 3.1% - -
2023 H2 56.1% 30.7% 9.8% - 3.4% - -
2023 H1 59% 21.11% 8.5% 11.4% - - -
2022 H2 25.5% 62.1% 9% 3.4% - - -
2022 H1 26.1% 59.5% 10.1% 4.3% - - -
2021 H2 37.1% 42.3% 13.7% 6.9% - - -
2021 H1 43.6% 44.3% 9.3% 2.8% - - -
2020 H2 43.7% 45.6% 7.9% 2.9% - - -
2020 H1 46.6% 40.6% 8.8% - - 3.9% -
2019 H2 36.5% 44.1% 13.4% - - 5.9% -
2019 H1 49.8% 34.1% 11.5% - - 4.6% -
2018 H2 42.8% 41.8% 11.5% - - 3.8% -
2018 H1 64.5% 22.2% 10.1% - - 3.2% -
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Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Share of removal requestsYouTubeWeb SearchAll othersGoogle App EngineGoogle ImagesBloggerGoogle Docs2017 H12017 H22018 H12018 H22019 H12019 H22020 H12020 H22021 H12021 H22022 H12022 H22023 H12023 H22024 H1
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