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Google's beta feature to remove personal info from search results (myactivity.google.com)
4 points by alsodumb on Aug 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


If a Google Search result shows your personal email address, phone number, or home address, you can request to remove it from the Search page.

I've made some requests and it's basically impossible to find my phone number and address in search results. It was very easy to find my details before, as I have a unique name and banks/credit agencies used to sell my address every time I moved. Tons of people-search websites published that info and it used to get into search results. While those websites still carry my info, they'll get way less traffic since people can't find it in Google searches.




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