Guide · Results about you
Ask Google to remove your address or phone number from Search
Results about you is Google’s own tool for finding search results that show your home address, phone number, or email address, and asking Google to remove them. It needs a Google Account. It changes Google Search only: the page that shows your details stays online.
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Before you start
What to have ready. Keep private images and files with you: none of these requests asks you to send them to us.
- A Google Account. Google says some features are rolling out for users over 18 in certain markets.
- The details you want Google to look for: your name and your home address, phone number, or email. Google’s page also lists a nickname, a maiden name, and more than one address, phone number, or email.
- For a result you have already found, its web address and a screenshot. Google’s personal information request asks for the addresses of the pages and screenshots.
- If you live in California and data brokers are the problem, see the state’s own tool, below.
How to use Results about you
- Sign in to your Google Account and open Results about you. In the Google app, you can also tap your profile picture, then Results about you.Results about you (opens in a new tab)
- Enter your name and the contact details you want Google to look for, and set up notifications.
- Review the results it finds and ask for removal of the ones that show your details.
- For a single result, Google’s page describes another route from Search itself: open About this result, then Remove result, then It shows my personal info and I don’t want it there, then Contact info.
- Google says it checks Search for your details regularly, and that it notifies you within a few hours if any results match.
After you send a request
Google says you get an email confirming that your request was submitted. Each request then shows a status: In progress, Approved, Denied, or Undone. Google says there may be a delay between approval and the result leaving Search.
Other details Google may remove
Google’s personal information policy also lists these, through its removal request form:
- Confidential government ID numbers, such as a Social Security or tax ID number, or a resident ID card number.
- Bank account or credit card numbers.
- Pictures of your signature or ID.
- Private records, such as medical records.
- Confidential usernames and passwords.
For contact details posted to target someone, Google says it considers whether there are explicit or implicit threats, or calls for others to harm or harass you, and whether a significant amount of personal information has been gathered without a legitimate purpose. Google says it considers whether the content is important or newsworthy, and may leave it up if it is.
Full or partial removal
Google describes two outcomes. With a full removal, the page no longer shows up in Google Search. With a partial removal, it stops showing only for searches that include identifying information, such as your name.
California residents: the state’s tool for data brokers
Data broker sites are a separate problem from Google’s results. If you live in California, the California Privacy Protection Agency’s free Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, DROP, sends one deletion request to the registered data brokers (over 600, the agency says). The agency says that from August 1, 2026, data brokers must check DROP at least once every 45 days, and that a status update can take up to 90 days to show. You verify that you live in California before you send the request.
What Google will not do
- Google says the information still exists on the source web page, whether the request is approved or denied. Only the site that published it can take it down there.
- Google says it won’t remove results that are valuable to the public, such as information on government websites, educational institutions’ sites, or newspapers.
Questions
- Does removing a result from Google delete it from the website?
- No. Google says the information still exists on the source web page, whether your request is approved or denied. Only the site that published it can take it down.
- Why would Google deny my request?
- Google says it won’t remove results that are valuable to the public, such as information on government websites, educational institutions’ sites, or newspapers, and that it considers whether content is important or newsworthy.
- Can Google remove my Social Security number or bank details from Search?
- Its personal information policy lists confidential government ID numbers, bank account and card numbers, pictures of your signature or ID, private records such as medical records, and confidential usernames and passwords.
- What is a partial removal?
- Google’s term for a result that stops showing only when a search includes identifying information, such as your name. With a full removal, the page no longer shows up in Google Search at all.
- How do I know if my details show up again?
- Results about you can notify you. Google says it checks Search for your details regularly and notifies you within a few hours if any results match.
- What about data broker sites?
- They are separate from Google’s results. California residents can use the state’s free DROP tool, which sends one deletion request to the registered data brokers.
When doing it yourself is not enough
When the page itself needs to come down, not just the search result, our personal information page explains how we start with the source.
We are an independent removal agency, not the platform and not a law firm. The platform, search engine, or court makes the decision.
Official sources
Every fact above comes from these pages, read on September 30, 2026. Platforms change their forms; if a step looks different, the official page is the one to follow.