The EU Data Privacy Directive (95/46/EC) applies to any global search engine used by EU citizens.According to a January 21st, 2008 statement by Sjoera Nas an EU official, the guidelines are required by any search engine whose services are used by EU citizens.  The only search engines not required to follow the directive, are those which use exclusively non-EU languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, etc.  Spanish, French, German, and English would all fall under the directive of the law.