PSA: Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Your Personal Information From Search Results

If you ever Google yourself and don’t like what you see, you have some recourse. Google’s Results About You tool, which it first introduced in 2022, just got an update that makes it easier for you to request the removal of search results that contain your personal information, including outdated search results that are no longer relevant to you. The update introduces a new hub that will show you any results related to you that might pop up online. (You’ll have to sign up to opt into this feature, but once you do, Google says it will proactively monitor search results for you and put any relevant results in the hub for your review.) Additionally, Google is adding the ability to request a result be removed when people search for you. Tap the three dots next to a search result and a new menu option, “Remove this result” will appear. You’ll have to select a reason for the removal (shows personal information that you don’t want published, is out of date, you have a legal reason for wantin ... Read full article.