Last Updated on October 2, 2026 by Jade Artry
At a glance
How to Remove Your Information From Google Search
Search removal is not deletion. Removing a result hides the route to the page. The page itself stays live unless you deal with the site hosting it.
Start with Results about you. It monitors for your home address, phone number and email address and lets you request removal from the same tool.
Prioritise by what it enables. Deal first with anything that helps a stranger locate you, contact you unexpectedly or make a scam sound credible.
UK sources to check. 192.com and the open electoral register can keep supplying an address even after the Google result has gone.
Approval is not automatic. Google weighs public interest and may refuse results on government, educational or news sites.
If my home address, private phone number or personal email suddenly appeared when someone Googled my name, I'd deal with that result quickly. Google is often the easiest route into someone's personal information, so reducing what appears there can make a real difference even when the underlying record still exists elsewhere.
I wouldn't start by buying a data-removal subscription. I'd first work out who hosts the information, remove or change it at the source if I can, and then use Google's own removal or refresh tools. Google controls its search results; it doesn't control another company's webpage.
AI makes easy discovery more useful to scammers. The NCSC says AI is improving reconnaissance and social engineering, which means a detail found in seconds through search can be turned into a tailored message just as quickly. My priority would be anything that helps someone locate me, impersonate me or make a scam feel believable. I wouldn't spend the same energy removing a harmless professional mention.
What I'd Remove From Search First
AI hasn't changed Google's basic limitation: removing a result from Search still doesn't delete the source page.
What has changed is how valuable easy discovery can be. The NCSC identifies reconnaissance and social engineering as areas where AI is already giving attackers a capability boost. If a home address, private number or personal email is sitting on page one of Google, somebody can find it quickly and use it as context just as quickly.
I'd prioritise the results that change what a stranger can do: locate you, contact you unexpectedly, impersonate you or make a scam sound credible. I wouldn't spend the same time trying to erase every harmless mention of my name.
What Personal Information Will Google Remove?
Google's current personal-content policies allow requests involving several categories of sensitive information. These include certain:
- home addresses
- phone numbers
- email addresses
- government identification numbers
- bank and credit-card information
- images of signatures or identity documents
- medical records
- confidential login credentials
- doxxing content
Google also has separate processes for some intimate or sexual content and for legal removal requests. Approval isn't automatic. Google can consider public-interest factors and may refuse to remove results from sources such as government, educational or news websites where the information is considered valuable to the public.
Use Google's ‘Results About You' Tool First
For ordinary personal contact details, I'd start with ‘Results about you'. The tool can look for search results containing contact details such as your home address, phone number and email address.
Google also lets eligible users add other identifying details for monitoring and set notifications for new matches. Once Google identifies a result, you can review it and submit a removal request from the tool.
Use Google's Results about you guidance to check availability and the current steps. The feature is for adults aged 18 or over and availability can vary by market and account. If it is unavailable, use the personal-information removal request route instead.
How to Remove a Result Directly From Google Search
You can also start from the search result itself. When you find a result containing your personal information while signed in to Google, open the result options and look for Google's removal route.
Google will ask why you want the result removed and what type of information it contains. Submit accurate information. If you claim a result contains your home address but the page contains something else, you make the review harder rather than easier.
Google then lets you monitor the status of eligible requests. An approved request may remove the result entirely or only for searches involving your name or identifier, depending on the policy. Record the outcome and check the source separately.
Remove the Information From the Website Too
This is the step people skip. Google states clearly that removing a result from Search doesn't mean the information has disappeared from the internet.
If the original website is your own profile, edit or delete it. If it's an old account, close or update it. If it's a people search site, use its opt-out process. If it's a data broker, use the relevant privacy or deletion route.
If the site removes the information but Google still shows an old version, Google's outdated-content tools can help refresh the search result.
How to Remove Your Address From Google
If a search result shows your home address, use ‘Results about you' or Google's personal-information removal request. Then identify why the address is online.
Common sources include people search sites, business registrations, public records, old professional profiles, property pages, directory listings and old forum posts. In the UK, I'd specifically check 192.com and whether you're included in the open electoral register, because removing a Google result won't stop either source supplying or displaying the address elsewhere.
Removing the Google result helps reduce discovery through Search, but source removal matters if you don't want the address accessible elsewhere. If a directory or people finder is the source, how to remove yourself from people search sites gives you the current opt-out routes.
How to Remove Your Phone Number From Google
The process is similar. Use Google's personal-contact removal tools for eligible results, then remove the phone number from the original site.
If the number appears across many people search databases, a data removal service may save time. Best Data Removal Services is the next place I'd look, because that's where the repeated opt-outs start to matter more than the single Google result.
How to Remove Your Email Address From Google
Start by checking whether the email is genuinely private. A business contact address on a company website is a different case from a private email address copied onto a directory or doxxing page.
For eligible personal contact information, submit the result through Google's removal process. Then decide whether the email should remain on the original source.
If the address has also appeared in a data breach, Google removal won't solve that problem. Use a breach-checking service such as Have I Been Pwned and change any exposed or reused credentials.
What If the Website Has Already Deleted the Information?
Search engines don't always update instantly. If the webpage has changed or the content has been removed but the Google result still shows stale text, use Google's Refresh Outdated Content tool. This applies when a page has disappeared or changed significantly; it is not the route for information that is still live and unchanged.
That tells Google its index no longer reflects the live page.
What If Google Rejects Your Removal Request?
First, check the reason. A refusal can happen because the result doesn't contain the information you reported, the content doesn't meet the relevant removal policy, the source is considered to have public-interest value, Google needs a different legal process, or the information is still controlled by you and can be removed directly.
If the issue is legal rather than policy-based, Google provides a separate Legal Help route. For UK readers, privacy and data protection rights may also apply to the organisation hosting the information, depending on the circumstances.
Can a Data Removal Service Remove Google Results?
Sometimes indirectly, and this distinction needs to be clear. Services such as Incogni, DeleteMe, Optery, Privacy Bee and Kanary may remove personal information from data broker or people search sources that appear in Google. Once the source disappears, the Google result can eventually disappear or be refreshed.
Some services also support custom or search-result removal workflows. But I wouldn't describe any data-removal subscription as a universal ‘remove me from Google' button.
Google controls Google Search, and the source website controls the underlying page.
Can You Remove Information From Google Without Paying?
Yes. Google's own personal-information removal tools don't require a data-removal subscription.
People search opt-outs are also commonly free. Pay for a service when you want help managing a much larger clean-up, not because a company implies Google charges you for removal.
What If Your Address Is on Companies House?
This is a different problem. Companies House is a statutory public register. Certain company and officer details are legally published.
Google can sometimes remove eligible personal information from Search under its own policies, but that doesn't rewrite the Companies House record. If you've used your home address in company filings, check Companies House guidance on changing addresses and applying to suppress specific personal information where the law allows it.
What If You Are Being Doxxed?
Google has a specific policy for doxxing content. Its removal rules can apply where personal information appears alongside threats or where a significant amount of aggregated personal information is published without a legitimate purpose.
If there's an immediate safety risk, prioritise the source platform's abuse or safety process as well as search removal. Don't spend hours trying to make a perfect privacy audit before acting on the page that creates the clearest immediate danger.
The Order I Would Use
For most people:
- Save the URL and enough evidence to identify the problem.
- Remove the information at the source where possible.
- Use ‘Results about you' or Google's removal form.
- Use outdated-content refresh if the source has already changed.
- Opt out of the people search or data broker that published it.
- Check whether the same information appears elsewhere.
- Enable Google monitoring for future results.
That gives you a much better chance of reducing the information itself rather than only hiding one route to it. For the wider clean-up, follow how to remove your personal information from the internet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I remove my home address from Google?
Google accepts removal requests for eligible personal contact information including home addresses. Approval depends on the result and policy context.
Does Google remove the original webpage?
No. Removing a Google Search result doesn't remove the information from the source website.
Is Google's ‘Results about you' free?
Yes. It's a Google privacy feature, not a paid data-removal service.
What if my information appears on a people search site?
Use the site's official opt-out process, then request Google removal or refresh where appropriate.
Can I remove all search results about myself?
No. Google balances personal-content policies with public-interest and legal considerations, and not every result is eligible for removal.
