Remove Yourself from Google Search
Your name, address, and phone number probably show up the moment someone Googles you. Here is how to get those results taken down, for free, using Google's own tools.
Read this first: Google is the window, not the source
Google does not store your personal data. It points to the sites that do, mostly data brokers and people-search pages. So removing a Google result hides the window, but the data is still sitting on the source site, ready to be found again.
That matters for a practical reason: Google often denies a removal request while the source page is still live. The fastest, most permanent path is to remove your info at the source first, then ask Google to drop the now-empty result. This guide does both, in that order.
What Google will and will not remove
Will remove
- Your contact info (address, phone, email)
- Government ID numbers like an SSN, passport, or license
- Doxxing content meant to harm you
- Involuntary explicit images
- Results from sites that charge you to remove them
Will not remove
- True public-record info on its own
- Content just because it is unflattering
- News articles and public-interest reporting
- Pages where you cannot prove the info is yours
Check off each step as you finish. Your progress saves in this browser only. We never see it.
Get the Google Removal Templates
Ready-to-paste request wording for Google's removal forms, so you are not staring at a blank box trying to phrase it. Includes the version that gets the highest approval rate. Free, sent to your inbox.
These tools fix the easy stuff. We fix the hard stuff.
Google removal is one site. Your info is on 1,000+ broker sites that re-feed Google every few weeks. We remove you at the source and keep checking, so the results do not just crawl back.
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