Yes, keeping the information available where the EU's jurisdiction doesn't reach subverts the spirit of the EU's laws, but what alternative is there? By that standard, even delivering censored results to all EU IP addresses isn't enough - that's trivially circumvented with a VPN. And if the EU gets to have the spirit of their laws reach worldwide, then so does every other government.
But that way lies madness. Once Google is done censoring every search result that any government objects to (including results governments let their citizens object to), what will be left?
The alternative is pretty simple: google should honour the requests of EU citizens to be forgotten by google, not a limited subset of google.
It's like the copyright battles in reverse, only this time the rights holders are citizens, and it is google playing shell games rather than say allofmp3.
But that way lies madness. Once Google is done censoring every search result that any government objects to (including results governments let their citizens object to), what will be left?