Google support.google.com How to use Google's Results about you to remove your info from search
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Serus is a privacy company with paid tools to find and remove your personal data. This guide shows the free way to do it yourself.
Open Google's Results about you page, choose Get started, and enter your name plus the address, phone number or email you want to find. Review matches under To review, then select Request to remove on any result. Google emails you when it decides.
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Step by step
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Open Results about you
On desktop or mobile web, go to the Results about you page and sign in with your Google Account. In the Google app, tap your profile picture or initial, then choose Results about you from the menu.
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Select Get started or Settings
Choose Get started (or Settings if you've used the page before).
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Enter your name and the details to look for
Add your name and the info you want Google to check for: a home address, phone number or email address. You can also add a nickname, a maiden name, or several phone numbers, addresses and emails.
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Turn on notifications
If Google finds results with your info, you can get email notifications, and notifications in the Google app. Google says you'll hear within a few hours whether any results match, and again when new matches appear.
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Review what Google found
On the Results about you page, open the To review tab. Select a result to see the website it comes from and the personal info it shows.
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Request removal
Select the result, then Request to remove. If you'd rather leave it, choose Mark as reviewed. Google emails you to confirm the request and again when it has been reviewed.
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Track the request
Under Removal requests on the Results about you page, each request shows as in progress, approved, denied or undone. Open one to see the link you flagged, the date and time, and the request ID. There can be a short delay between approval and the result disappearing from search.
Watch out for
- Google only removes the result from Google Search. The page stays on the site that hosts it, and people can still reach it through links, social media or other search engines.
- Google won't remove results it treats as valuable to the public. Pages from government or educational sites, newspapers and business sites usually don't get a remove option.
- The contact info on the result has to be yours, and info you control yourself, such as a social media profile or a blog you own, doesn't qualify. Delete or edit that content at the source instead.
- Removal can be full (the page stops showing in Google Search) or partial (it stops showing for searches that include your name or identifier but can still appear for other searches).
- Some of these features are rolling out only for adults in certain markets. For a result showing someone under 18, use the detailed removal request form.
- Google stores the details you enter for monitoring and says it doesn't use them to personalize other Google products. To stop monitoring and delete what you entered, open Settings on the Results about you page and remove your info.
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Other ways to do it
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Report a result straight from Google Search
Sign in to your Google Account, search for your name (adding your city or home address helps surface results with contact info), and select More to open the "About this result" panel. Choose Remove result, then It shows my personal info and I don't want it there, then Contact Info, and go through the reporting flow. Enter your name and contact info exactly as they appear on the result page. You only need one type of contact info per request, and one request per URL.
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Use the detailed removal request form
Google points to the detailed removal request form if you're asking for someone else, don't want to sign in, or the result concerns someone under 18. Google's separate private info page also covers government ID numbers, bank and card numbers, medical records and login credentials. You'll need the URL of each page, and Google asks for screenshots to help it find the content.
What stays out there
Results about you takes a page out of Google Search. It doesn't touch the page itself. A people-search site that lists your home address and phone number still holds that listing, and other search engines can still show it.
The lasting fix is getting the listing taken down at the source, site by site, and then watching for it to come back. Serus finds where your details are listed and removes them, including from Google results. If you want to start by hand, our FastPeopleSearch opt-out guide shows what a broker removal looks like.
Frequently asked
Is Google's Results about you free?
Google doesn't mention a charge on its help pages for either monitoring or removal requests.
How long does a removal request take?
Google emails you to confirm the request within a few hours, then again once it has reviewed it. The status shows under Removal requests on the Results about you page.
Why is there no remove option on a result?
Google treats some pages as valuable to the public, such as government, educational and newspaper sites, and doesn't offer removal for them.
Does removal delete my info from the website?
No. Google can only remove it from Search results. To take it off the site, contact the site's owner.
Can I request removal for someone else?
Not through the signed-in flow. Google says to use the detailed removal request form to request removal for someone else.
Sources
- Find and remove personal info in Google Search results · support.google.com
- Remove my private info from Google Search · support.google.com
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