Google’s making it even easier to remove your personal info from search

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Google’s making it even easier to remove your personal info from search
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Now, Google’s anti-doxxing tool is built right into the app.

during its I/O conference, saying that it’d be coming to the Google app.

Google already had a way to remove search results that contained your home address, email address, or phone number, along with a host of other types of potentially dangerous or damaging information. That system wasn’t necessarily the easiest to access or use, though. If you found a search result that linked to your sensitive information, you’d have toThe in-app process Google’s adding is more straightforward than the traditional method.

There’s also a “Results about you” screen that you can get to by tapping your profile picture in the Google app, which lets you track the information removal requests you’ve made and see their status. According to, you’ll also be able to start a new request from this screen for various other search result removal requests, too, including ones that contain outdated or illegal info.

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