Google Removals Journey

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Stersco83	Stersco83 Posted 2 days ago @ 9:42 PM #36184
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 53, Visits: 356	+x khafka - 15 Jun 26 9:36 PM +x Stersco83 - 15 Jun 26 8:35 PM +x khafka - 25 Jan 24 1:15 PM +x Jamie7718 - 25 Jan 24 1:01 PM I thought there used to be a way of chatting with you in a DM. I was going to ask you for the link or address where you actually asked for help from google. I'm not going to need it for another 2 years though If there is a chat feature it's certainly not something I've ever come across! Regardless, here you go. Google Removal Information This is just the overview page to tell you what sort of things they remove and all that. Google Removal Form This is the actual removal form if you just want to skip all that. Well I'm finally doing it...I'll let you know how they respond to a spend 18 month sentence. So those are THE links where the magic happens? No additional facility to speak of? Here's my concern, going in: "Click here if your name (or your client's name) is not the search query that produces the result(s) that you wish to have delisted" Problem is, people google me by the wrong spelling of my name all the time, and get the offending article. Nope, not other additional facility needed. It's been a hot minute since I've had to fill out the form but from memory there is an option for alternate spellings. I used it to cover all bases "think like John/Johnathan" etc. I didn't get a confirmation email, is that normal? Just a little confirmation page and incident number. 3
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khafka	khafka Posted Yesterday @ 5:45 AM #36192
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 425, Visits: 22K	+x Stersco83 - 15 Jun 26 9:42 PM I didn't get a confirmation email, is that normal? Just a little confirmation page and incident number. You should've gotten an initial email too, or at least I did. But it was just a generic thing saying it's in the queue, here's your reference number so I wouldn't think too much of it if you've gotten a number. Depending how busy they are and how complex yours might be in terms of reviewing it all you should hopefully hear back in a couple of days. Once you get an email confirming the removals KEEP THAT EMAIL Then moving forward if any new links pops up just reply to that email with the new URL(s) and I've had zero issue with them removing them, usually within 24hours. Fingers crossed for you! 1
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Stersco83	Stersco83 Posted Yesterday @ 11:43 AM #36195
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 53, Visits: 356	+x khafka - 17 Jun 26 5:45 AM +x Stersco83 - 15 Jun 26 9:42 PM I didn't get a confirmation email, is that normal? Just a little confirmation page and incident number. You should've gotten an initial email too, or at least I did. But it was just a generic thing saying it's in the queue, here's your reference number so I wouldn't think too much of it if you've gotten a number. Depending how busy they are and how complex yours might be in terms of reviewing it all you should hopefully hear back in a couple of days. Once you get an email confirming the removals KEEP THAT EMAIL Then moving forward if any new links pops up just reply to that email with the new URL(s) and I've had zero issue with them removing them, usually within 24hours. Fingers crossed for you! "Hello, Thanks for reaching out to us. We had a look at these URLs: - - We'll delist these URLs from search results for queries related to your name. We'll delist them in your country, and from other European versions of Google Search. It may take a few hours for this to happen. The content itself will still be online, but you can ask the site's webmaster to take it down. You can learn how to contact a site's webmaster on our Help Center." I'll wait a bit before checking the outcomes, but if it works I'm elated. The only thread remaining to my punishment is some ugly rumours. And Bing. The moral of the story is, keep is short and sweet, don't plead or overshare, just lean on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. And a benchmark reached -- jail time from 10 years ago. It might be a nice idea to begin a single long term thread where people share winning pleas/formulations. Oh God, there's an American dimension to my life and work though I wonder if they meant "queries related to your name [globally], AND deliisted [generally] in Google searches in UK and Europe", Edited Yesterday @ 12:20 PM by Stersco83 2
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khafka	khafka Posted Yesterday @ 1:53 PM #36196
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 425, Visits: 22K	+x Stersco83 - 17 Jun 26 11:43 AM +x khafka - 17 Jun 26 5:45 AM +x Stersco83 - 15 Jun 26 9:42 PM I didn't get a confirmation email, is that normal? Just a little confirmation page and incident number. You should've gotten an initial email too, or at least I did. But it was just a generic thing saying it's in the queue, here's your reference number so I wouldn't think too much of it if you've gotten a number. Depending how busy they are and how complex yours might be in terms of reviewing it all you should hopefully hear back in a couple of days. Once you get an email confirming the removals KEEP THAT EMAIL Then moving forward if any new links pops up just reply to that email with the new URL(s) and I've had zero issue with them removing them, usually within 24hours. Fingers crossed for you! "Hello, Thanks for reaching out to us. We had a look at these URLs: - - We'll delist these URLs from search results for queries related to your name. We'll delist them in your country, and from other European versions of Google Search. It may take a few hours for this to happen. The content itself will still be online, but you can ask the site's webmaster to take it down. You can learn how to contact a site's webmaster on our Help Center." I'll wait a bit before checking the outcomes, but if it works I'm elated. The only thread remaining to my punishment is some ugly rumours. And Bing. The moral of the story is, keep is short and sweet, don't plead or overshare, just lean on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. And a benchmark reached -- jail time from 10 years ago. It might be a nice idea to begin a single long term thread where people share winning pleas/formulations. Oh God, there's an American dimension to my life and work though I wonder if they meant "queries related to your name [globally], AND deliisted [generally] in Google searches in UK and Europe", Wooo! That's the exact email I got/get. That's the one to keep an hold of I mentioned earlier! In my experience they usually disappear within 24hours of that email. I will get round to trying to Bing again at some point but it's not a huge priority just now. 1
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