Now to tackle Yahoo and Bing!

Best of luck, mate! Let me know how you get on.

I still need to get back on them. I tried Bing after Google removed mine and they were being such difficult shitebags about it I gave up for a while. Weirdly half the Google results don't even show on Bing in the first place but still...

And now it's back again with a different URL. Guess I'm playing whack-a-mole for a while.

Right,

Just sent off my request to Bing to see if they can remove the links.

What I will state is I noticed a new website has cropped up and showing me in Google (I've requested them to remove it). I have also reported their domain URL to their host as they're openly admitting to running a public offender database which is against the law.

So if you've had stuff removed maybe take a quick check to see if you've popped up again.

It's 'Red Rose' that is doing it.

So a week later.

Google have removed that link, happy days.

Bing have told me to jog on as they believe that public interest is more important than my privacy. They have no way to appeal either, shitebags.
Thats twice they've refused it now. I think I'll lodge a case with ICO, the fact Google removes my stuff will hopefully work in my favour.

As a sidenote, Microsoft actually publish their removals. From January To June 2024 they accepted/removed only 43% of all requests.

I'd definitely recommend trying the ICO and leaning a bit into Article 8 - good luck!

PS: With regards specifically to the publishing of figures, I'd be semi-wary of paying much heed whatsoever to these figures - it does sound like it's on the low side, but I don't doubt they're receiving a lot of applications from people who are "having a go" and aren't really dedicated to the process as such, so perhaps aren't filling out the request form correctly or ensuring they put across the ongoing effects it is having on their lives, and so are being denied.

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Yeah, I'll be putting a report to ICO together on Monday.

I've been burned heavily by them before when they made a massive mess and were just basically "sorry lol". This was earlier before I knew more about the removals process I went to ICO about a few websites posting about me and then got in touch with the people directly saying "Khafka wants you to remove the posts about him". My crime being a sex offence you can imagine how that went down with those websites... 

Just updating everyone regarding Operation: Bing

Sent off my request to ICO this morning, according to the auto-response it could take up to around a week to get assigned and receive a reference number etc.

Aside from the main bits on the report the bulk of my request stated the following:

My offence has been spent as of 2023 and under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act I am afforded the opportunity to carry on my life as a ‘normal’ individual. These search results being active has prevented me from obtaining employment, housing, engaging in public activities, as well as further facilitating embarrassment and harassment. I am not a public figure, I’m not famous in any way. My offence is over half a decade old at this point and has been legally classed as spent for over 2 years so I’d reject the notion of it still being in public interest.

Additionally Bing have denied my request on the basis of the EU GDPR which has no relevance within the UK as we operate on the UK GDPR scheme.

Furthermore, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) entitles me to live my life in privacy which these results contravene.

Other search engines such as Google have accepted my request and have removed all results I have requested. Bing seem reluctant due to ‘public interest’ however they will not quantify that nor is there an escalation procedure in place for it to be removed.

So we'll see how it pans out, I'll be sure to get folks updated on the progress even if only for posterity.

Hello. I wanted to get some practical info from those of you who have approached Bing and Yahoo requesting URL removals. I have been successful with Google and now want to turn my fire on them. Is there a form used by either or both that I need to complete, or site I need to visit to apply? Not sure how this process works or where to go to get it started. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.
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I haven't tackled Yahoo yet and I'm still working on Bing. Based on my own personal experience and experiences of others they appear to be an absolute shitemare to get stuff removed as they just reject everything as "public interest" - I've tried them twice now. 

First time they refused due to this unquantifiable "public interest" tag. The second time I went back to them after Google removed my links and used that in an attempt to have some leverage "Look, Google removed them" and again was pushed back due to "public interest" which they never elaborate on and their email is a no-reply one so you can't follow it up.

This time I raised a case with ICO about it but they're so horrendously back-logged that I'm still waiting for them to get back in touch, I raised the case in about mid-April 2025, when I chased it up in June they advise they were just picking up cases from January so I'm not expecting much until probably October at this point.

Either way, here is the link for the Bing removal form: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/tools/eu-privacy-request

I personally found the form to be a more messy and a pain to fill out compared to Google's but that's just me.