Guides · updated 2026-08-27
How do I remove my name from Google search results?
Google's Results about you tool removes results that contain your home address, phone number or email address from Google Search, and you can request it for yourself in your own account. It does not delete the page. The page stays online, other search engines keep it, and anyone with the link still reaches it. So a Google removal is the second step, and getting the page taken down at its source is the first.
What the tool is
Results about you sits in your Google account. You give it your name, address, phone number and email, it finds Search results carrying those details, and you request removal for the ones you want gone. Google reviews each request against its published policy.
What it is not
It is not a deletion. The page remains published, other search engines are unaffected, and a direct link still works. Treat it as hiding the doorway rather than removing the room.
Do the source first
If the result is a broker profile, remove the profile. If it is an old employer page or a conference bio, write to whoever runs the site. Then use the Google tool for whatever remains in the index while the page disappears. Removing the profile itself.
Then check what changed
Search for yourself again a week later, in a logged-out window, and check the result is actually gone rather than merely reordered for you. Evidence of the change is the only proof worth having.
Common questions
- What exactly does Results about you remove?
- Results that contain your personal contact information: home address, phone number and email address. You request removal from your own Google account, and Google reviews the request. It applies to Google Search results, not to the web page itself.
- Does the page come down?
- No. The page stays online, other search engines can still list it, and anyone holding the link still reaches it. That is the single most common misunderstanding about this tool.
- So what is the right order?
- Get the page removed at its source first, then ask Google to drop the result. When the page is gone, the result usually falls out of the index on its own, and Google's removal handles the gap in between.
- Can I remove a result that is simply unflattering?
- Generally no. Google's policy covers personal contact information, plus a narrow set of categories such as explicit imagery and doxxing content. Ordinary reputation is not covered, and in the United States there is no right to be forgotten to fall back on.
- What about images?
- Image results are handled by their own removal routes and are treated separately from a page result. Removing the page at the source is again the reliable step.
- Does this affect what an AI assistant says about me?
- Not directly. An assistant answers from training data and from what it retrieves at the time of the question, so a hidden search result can still be quoted from the live page. The provider removal routes are the separate step there.
Sources
- Google, Results about you · read 27 August 2026
- Google Search Help, removing select personally identifiable information · read 27 August 2026
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