Google is finally making it easier for you to make sure your personal information doesn't show up in online search results – and all it took was hundreds of thousands of requests over nearly a decade.
The company has said it wants to process all removal requests quickly, and that decisions will be made through a combination of algorithmic tools and human monitoring of the requests.
On the online form, you can click the option to"remove select personally identifiable information or doxxing content from Google Search." From there, you'll answer a series of questions about the type of personal information showing up in search results, URLs of the websites displaying the information, search terms used to turn up those results in Google searches and even screenshots of the websites and search results.
The form also asks if your personal information is being shared"with doxxing intent," if it includes explicit content or if it needs to be removed for legal reasons. Of course, these new policies and tools only relate to personal information showing up in Google's search results. Google cannot remove your personal data from the internet entirely, andthat you contact websites hosting your information directly to request its removal from those sites"if you're comfortable doing so."
The move has potentially been in the works for almost a decade: In 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that search engines like Google needed to allow European internet users to request the removal of their personal information for their"
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