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The short answer
To remove personal information from Google, open Google's "Results about you" tool and request removal of any search result showing your home address, phone number, or email. Google will de-list the result. It does not delete the page, so you must also opt out at the data broker that publishes it, or the result returns under a different URL.
Almost every guide to this stops after step one, which is why people do it and find their address back in Google two months later. Removing a search result and removing the information are two different jobs, and only one of them lasts.
The thing to understand first
Google is a window, not the room
Removing it from Google
Google stops showing that URL when someone searches your name. Google's own documentation is explicit: it does not mean the information is gone from the internet. The page is still published, still reachable, still crawled by everyone else, and still available to any background-check service that queries the broker directly.
The broker also generates new listing URLs. A removal covers a URL. A new URL is a new result.
Removing it at the broker
The page comes down. Google drops it from the index on the next crawl, and so does Bing, and so does every scraper that was reading it. There is no URL left to generate.
This is the step that actually works, and the one nobody wants to do, because it means filing a form at 45 companies rather than one at Google.
Do both, in that order. The Google request buys you relief in days while the broker opt-outs, which take up to six weeks, work their way through.
The method
Remove information from Google search, permanently
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01 Find out what Google shows
Search your full name in a private window, then search it again with your city, and again with your street name. Write down every result that exposes an address, a phone number, an email, or your relatives. Go three pages deep. The listing that will hurt you is rarely the first one.
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02 Ask Google to remove the results
Google's "Results about you" tool takes your details and finds search results containing them. Request removal of each one. Google approves removals for phone numbers, home addresses, and email addresses, and since February 2026 it also accepts requests covering government ID numbers such as a driver's license, passport, or Social Security number. Google publishes no processing deadline, but it does say you can check whether an approved result has gone within a few hours of approval.
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03 Remove the source listing
This is the step that lasts. Every result you reported comes from a page on a data broker's site. Opt out at that broker and the page ceases to exist. Our guides cover the six brokers that produce most of these results, and the full list covers the rest.
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04 Refresh the index
Once the broker has taken the page down, Google may still show a stale result until it recrawls. The Refresh Outdated Content tool tells Google to go and look now. Use it only after the source page is genuinely gone, otherwise Google recrawls, finds the page alive, and keeps the result. It is one of five separate removal paths Google runs, and picking the wrong one is the usual reason a request comes back refused.
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05 Turn on monitoring, and expect to use it
Results about you can watch for new results containing your information and alert you when they appear. They will appear. Brokers re-ingest public records and publish a new page under a new URL, and Google indexes it because it is a new page it has never been asked about.
Five forms, one right answer
Which Google removal request should I file?
Most refused requests were simply filed on the wrong form. Google runs five separate removal paths, each with its own rules, and a people-search listing sent to the outdated content tool gets refused within a day. Match the problem to the path first.
Swipe the table sideways to see every column.
| Removal path | Use it for | It will not cover |
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| Results about you | Your home address, phone number or email address showing in results. A dashboard in your Google account that scans for them and files the request in a couple of taps. | Anything that is not contact information. No reviews, no photos, no old articles. |
| Personal information removal form | Government ID numbers, bank and card numbers, medical records, handwritten signatures and login credentials. The right route for sensitive identifiers. | Information Google judges newsworthy or of public interest. |
| Doxxing request | Personal details published alongside threats, or gathered with clear malicious intent. Filed inside the same form, under the doxxing option. | Exposure on its own. Without a sign of intended harm it is not doxxing. |
| Refresh Outdated Content | A result whose source page was already deleted or edited, which Google still shows. Clears the stale link or snippet. | Live content. If the page still says what you want gone, the tool refuses. |
| Legal Help Center | Claims under a specific law: copyright, defamation findings, court orders. | A claim you assert but have not established. It expects a legal basis. |
The usual mistake is reaching for Refresh Outdated Content first because its name sounds like it does the most. It does the least. It syncs Google's index to a page that has already changed, so it can only ever be the last step. Since February 2026, Results about you also flags government ID numbers such as a driver's license, passport or Social Security number, which used to need the longer form.
The limits
What Google will not remove
Google removes personal contact information and a defined set of sensitive identifiers. It does not remove things merely because you would prefer they were not there.
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News coverage about you
Reporting by a legitimate publisher stays indexed. Google treats this as broadly useful information.
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Public court and government records
Filings, judgments, and registries are public by law, and Google indexes them as such.
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Content you simply dislike
A bad review, an old forum post, or an unflattering photo on a site you do not control is not personal contact information.
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The data broker's page itself
De-listing hides a URL from Search. The page stays online. Only the broker can take it down, and only if you ask them.
Where the results come from
Go upstream and the results stop
Most of the results exposing your address in Google are pages on five or six sites. Removing yourself from each one removes the whole cluster, and removes the pages Google has not indexed yet. Start with Spokeo opt out, Whitepages opt out, and True People Search removal, which between them account for most of the page-one damage.
Then work through BeenVerified and Intelius, and finally Acxiom, which supplies several of the others. The complete sequence, with every form linked, is in how to remove your information from the internet.
If it is the Google side you want to understand properly first, the Google Results about you tool page breaks down exactly which data types it will and will not take, what the February 2026 expansion added, and how to read a Denied status. If you would rather hand the whole job off, the best data removal services compared on price and broker coverage shows which ones also watch for the listings coming back.
Or see what Google is currently exposing about you in about twenty seconds with the exposure scan, which searches the same public web Google indexes and stores nothing.
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Common questions about Google removal requests
Can I remove my name from Google search?
No. Google accepts no request to remove a name on its own, because a name is not personal contact information. What you can remove are the pages that make the name worth searching: the listing with your address, the profile with your phone number, the record naming your relatives. Take those down and a search for your name returns very little.
How long does a Google removal request take?
Google publishes no committed turnaround. Results about you requests move from In progress to Approved, Denied or Undone, and Google says you can check whether an approved result has gone within a few hours. Requests that need a human to weigh public interest take longer. The broker opt-outs behind them usually clear in 72 hours to two weeks.
Does a Google removal request delete the page?
No. The page stays online exactly as it was and anyone with the link still reaches it. Google only stops showing it for the queries your request covers. Because people-search sites republish listings at new URLs, deleting the listing at the data broker is the only version of this that lasts.
What if Google denies my removal request?
Read the stated reason before refiling, because the same request gets the same answer. Denials fall into three groups: the content was judged newsworthy, the wrong form was used and a different path applies, or the outdated content tool was used on a live page, in which case the source page has to change first.
Why does my information come back to Google search?
Because people-search sites are databases, not static pages. They keep buying property filings, voter rolls, court dockets and change-of-address data, then regenerate your profile at a new URL that your old request never covered. It comes back fastest for anyone who moves, buys property, registers a vehicle or files anything with a county clerk.
Do I still need to opt out of data brokers?
Yes, and it is the part that does the real work. Google only mirrors what the people-search sites publish. While a listing stays live it keeps feeding new results, keeps being sold and keeps appearing on partner sites that license the same records. Delisting without opting out treats the symptom and leaves the source running.
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