How to remove yourself from Google 'Results about you'
Google's 'Results about you' tool lets you request removal of search results that expose your home address, phone number, or email. This cuts off the easiest path people use to find broker listings about you.
Open Google 'Results about you'’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- Google 'Results about you'
- How you come off
- Online formyou submit it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- Not set by statute here
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- 10 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
What Google 'Results about you' holds about you
- Search results exposing your contact details
How to get removed
- Open Google's 'Results about you' tool.
- Search your name and flag results that expose your contact details.
- Request removal; Google reviews and de-indexes qualifying results.
Removes personal info (address, phone, email) from Search.
This de-indexes results from Google Search; the underlying page still exists, so pair it with removal from the source site.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
Opt-out processes change. If a step no longer matches what you see, tell us and we’ll update it.