Remove your name from Google search results

What to do right now

• Search your name like a stranger would: in a private window, with and without your middle name, your city or your employer, and check Google Images too.
• Copy the links of every result that harms you and take dated screenshots.
• Do not post angry replies or counter-accusations: they create new results under your name.
• Do not pay anyone who offers to “delete” a post about you in exchange for money.

What appears for your name: the audit

Your name is not one problem but a list of results, and each one has its own route. The first step is a free audit of the first pages of Google for your name. We sort each result into one of four groups:

• Personal data: your number, address, ID or GCash details in a post. These can usually be removed: see how we remove your phone number from Google and remove your home address from Google.
• Social media posts that insult, harass or accuse you, on Facebook, TikTok, X or YouTube, which we report under each platform’s rules.
• Articles and blogs: news reports, old press releases and opinion blogs. A different procedure applies: remove a news article.
• Neutral or positive results that we leave in place, because they push the harmful ones down.

Removal vs de-indexing

There are two ways to make a result disappear when someone searches your name. Removal at the source deletes the post or the page itself: it then disappears from Google, Facebook search and every other search engine. De-indexing asks Google to stop showing a page in its results; the page stays online and can still be shared by link.

We always try the source first, because it is the lasting solution. When a site refuses or does not answer, we ask Google to de-index the page under the policy that fits: personal information, doxxing, non-consensual intimate images, or a court order. When a page has already been deleted or changed but Google still shows the old version, we use Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool so the stale result is updated or dropped. For a single link, see also how we remove links from Google.

Right to be forgotten in the Philippines

Many people ask us for the “right to be forgotten”. In the strict European sense, it does not exist in the Philippines: Google’s right-to-be-forgotten form is reserved for people in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, so asking for it from Manila or Cebu will not work.

Filipinos have a different tool. Under the Data Privacy Act (RA 10173), you can ask that your personal data be blocked or erased when it is false, outdated, unlawfully obtained or processed without your consent. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) states that this also applies to data published online, and that the publisher should ask other sites and search engines to remove or de-list copies. The request goes to the website that publishes your data, not to Google directly, and journalism has a specific exemption.

We draft these requests for you to sign and send them to the website owners. We are not a law firm and do not give legal advice. For a court order, such as a writ of habeas data, or a complaint before the NPC, you need a lawyer: we give you the evidence file to start with.

Results Google keeps

• Accusations and defamation: Google rarely removes a result only because it is untrue. In practice it asks for a court decision. We work on the source page and its platform instead.
• News articles: protected by press freedom and the journalism exemption of the Data Privacy Act. The editor may update or anonymise them, not Google.
• Public roles and court records: results about a public office, a business you run or a public court decision are usually kept.
• Your own profiles: delete or lock them yourself; Google updates its results later.

How we clean up your name on Google

1. Free audit. Tell us your name and the results that worry you on Messenger or through the form. We list each result with its route, chances and price, before you pay.
2. Source requests. We report posts to the platforms and send privacy requests to websites.
3. Google requests. We file de-indexing requests for the results Google’s policies cover, and outdated-content requests for pages already changed.
4. Report and monitoring. You get a summary of every result and its outcome. The larger packs and monthly plans watch your name for new results.

Your name page is part of our service to remove personal information. Packs and monthly plans are on our content removal prices page.