Tech Desk 
Feb 26, 2025
Google has officially announced updating its “Results about you” tool to make it simple for users to protect and remove their personal information from search results.
The company says it’s improved the sign-up process and simplified requesting removals directly from Google Search.
The tool can be used to proactively monitor and delete things like your phone number, email address, or physical address from Search results.
With this update, users can now click the three dots next to a Google Search result to view an updated menu, allowing them to submit a removal request right away via the “remove these results” option.
Moreover, users can now use the three-dotted menu to request a refresh of their information.
If you removed content about yourself from a website and search hasn’t been updated to reflect this, you can request a refresh so that Google’s systems will “recrawl” the page to obtain the latest information.
To use the feature, you are required to complete a form to provide your contact information to allow Google to check if it matches the information on a search results page.
You can select to get notifications if Google finds results with your information.
The feature is currently available to users in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, Sweden, Thailand, India, and Indonesia.
The company said that your information is not shared or used to personalise your experience across Google products.
