Google has revamped its Results About You tool, which lets you control how your personal information appears in Search. The updated tool makes it easier to request the removal of personal information, ...

What information is publicly available when you type your name into Google’s search engine? While you might not have any dark secrets to hide, it’s not exactly comforting to discover that searching ...

By default, anyone can view your photos and videos on your Instagram account unless you are a minor, in which case your account should be private by default. However, by going to your profile, ...

Personal information can end up online in many places, and bad actors often seek such data to commit fraud, impersonation, or cause harm. Google Search is one common place where personal details ...

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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 ...

It sounds impossible and it ultimately is, but you can get surprisingly close to deleting yourself from the internet in 2025. Here’s how. There are many reasons you might want to “delete yourself” ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit that showed an easy way to completely remove an entire website from Google’s search index without a search console verified account. The person who ...

Google's John Mueller explains how to remove pages from Google Search, why sitelinks can't be controlled manually, and when to use the URL removal tool. Google clarified that you can’t control which ...