Remove an prototype from Google

If you want to remove a photo from Google search results, you ordinarily need to contact the site owner, the person who owns the site that has the image.

Important: Nearly images that show upwardly in Google search results are from websites that aren't owned by Google, then we can't remove these images from the web. This is why you should first contact the site's owner to enquire them to remove the image.

How to remove an image from Google search results

We understand that yous may want to remove certain images from search results as soon as possible. However, the process of removing images from search results can take some time.

Step 1: Contact the site owner to take down the paradigm

Here are a few ways you tin contact the owner of a site:

  • Contact us link: Discover a "Contact us" link or an email address for the site owner. This information is oft on the site's homepage.
  • Find contact information using Whois: You tin can perform a Whois (who is?) search for the site owner using Google. Go to google.com and search for whois www.case.com. The e-mail accost to contact the site owner tin ofttimes be found under "Registrant Email" or "Administrative Contact."
  • Contact the site's hosting company: The Whois search outcome commonly includes information about who hosts the website. If you're unable to attain the site owner, try to contact the site'due south hosting visitor.

Note: If you adopt not to contact the site owner or are unable to go the image removed from a site, check other cases where Google may remove images from search results.

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Remove an prototype uploaded to a social media platform

To remove an image from Google search results that was uploaded to a social media platform like Facebook and Twitter, you must first remove the image from the platform.

  • If you have admission to the account that uploaded the paradigm, remove the prototype from the platform.
  • If y'all don't take access to that account, please contact the social media visitor for help with removing the image.

Bank check the social media platform'southward help center

Most social media platforms accept help resources on their image removal policies and processes.

  1. Check the social media platform'due south help center. Here are some help centers of popular platforms:
    • Facebook Help Center
    • Twitter Assistance Middle
    • Instagram Help Center
    • Pinterest Assistance Center
  2. Search for keywords based on your situation. For case:
    • "Remove a photograph"
    • "Report a photograph" or "accept downwardly photo"
    • "Impersonation" or "Fake accounts"
    • "Paradigm removal policies"

Remove an image from your ain site

Remove an paradigm you uploaded to a Google product

You can remove a photo that you uploaded to a Google production from your Anthology Archive or Google Photos. When y'all delete a photo from your Album Annal, the photograph is removed from all Google products that information technology appears in, similar Blogger, Hangouts, and Google Photos.

  1. Go to your Anthology Archive.
  2. Open the photo you desire to delete.
  3. At the top right, select More than More and then Delete photo Delete.
  4. If you don't find "Delete photo," select Manage in Google Photos to delete the photo.

Learn how to delete your photos in Google Photos.

Step 2: Ask united states of america to remove the deleted epitome from search results

After the site owner removes the image from their site, the image will eventually exist removed from Google Search as part of our regular updating process. You lot can also asking to remove the prototype from Google Search.

Request removal of a deleted paradigm from Google Search

Role 1: Copy the epitome link address

  1. Search for the image yous desire to remove at images.google.com.
  2. In search results, right click the prototype thumbnail and choose Copy link accost.
    • Note: Dissimilar browsers may accept different names for copying link location.

Office 2: Request removal from Google search results

  1. Click Request removal below.
    Request removal
  2. Click New request and then Prototype.
  3. Select Enter "Copy link address" URL from Epitome Search results.
  4. In the "Search results URL" box, paste the link address.
  5. Click Submit.

You lot tin bank check the status of your request on the Remove outdated content page.

Ask Google to remove specific images from Search results

Nosotros recognize that information technology tin be distressing to find sure images of yourself or your data in search results.

In limited cases, Google may remove links to the image from Google Search. This doesn't remove the paradigm from the site information technology was linked from.

To support yous through the removal asking process of such images and videos from Google search results, follow the steps below for your situation.

Remove image with sensitive financial, medical, or national ID info

Nosotros may remove information that we allocate as presenting a risk of identity theft or fraud to the private.

Requirements

For u.s.a. to consider the content for removal, it must pertain to the following types of information:

  • Confidential government identification (ID) numbers like U.S. Social Security Number, Argentine Single Tax Identification Number, Brazil Cadastro de pessoas Físicas, Korea Resident Registration Number, People's republic of china Resident Identity Carte, etc.
  • Depository financial institution account numbers
  • Credit card numbers
  • Images of handwritten signatures
  • Images of ID docs
  • Highly personal, restricted, and official records, like medical records
  • Personal contact info (physical addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses)
  • Confidential login credentials

Request to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements higher up, you or an authorized representative tin can request a removal of the image from Google search results. To make a request, click the push below.

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Remove non-consensual explicit or intimate personal image or "revenge porn"

Nosotros may remove intimate or explicit images and videos (sometimes referred to equally "revenge porn") that were shared without consent.

Important: To written report imagery that is sexually abusive towards children, follow the steps to report child sexual abuse imagery.

Requirements

For us to consider the content for removal, information technology must meet both of these requirements:

  1. The imagery shows you (or the individual you're representing) nude, in a sexual act, or an intimate state.
  2. You (or the individual y'all're representing) didn't consent to the imagery or the human activity and it was fabricated publicly available OR you intended the content to be private and the imagery was fabricated publicly bachelor without your consent.

Request to remove paradigm from Google Search

If the epitome meets the requirements to a higher place, you or an authorized representative tin asking a removal of the epitome from Google search results. To brand a asking, click the push button below.

Tip: Yous'll demand to provide screenshots of the paradigm y'all want usa to remove. We encourage you to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but delight ensure nosotros can still place the image.

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What nosotros include in our review

We take public interest and newsworthiness into business relationship when determining if content will be removed.

  • In the vast majority of cases, these types of images and the content that accompanies them have no public interest value.
  • In very rare cases, we may not remove reported content based on a strong public interest.
  • In other cases, there may be information provided alongside an paradigm that is in the public interest to remain available in our results, just instances of the image itself without context may be removed.

Remove involuntary fake pornography

Nosotros may remove involuntary faux pornography of you from Google search results, if the image or video meets the requirements below.

Requirements

For u.s.a. to consider the content for removal, information technology must run across all of these requirements:

  1. Y'all're identifiably depicted in the imagery.
  2. The imagery in question is simulated and falsely depicts you nude or in a sexually explicit situation.
  3. The imagery was distributed without your consent.

Request to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, you or an authorized representative can asking a removal of the image from Google search results. To brand a request, click the push button below.

Tip: You'll need to provide screenshots of the epitome you want us to remove. We encourage you lot to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, but delight ensure we can still identify the paradigm.

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Remove personal epitome hosted on a site that has exploitative removal practices

Upon asking, under some circumstances, we may remove links to content from Google search results when a site or other agency requires you to pay them straight to remove the content.

Requirements

For the states to consider the content for removal, it must run across all of these requirements:

  1. You are the subject field of the content in the submitted URL.
  2. The website is not a business review site.
  3. The website has removal practices that necessitate payment to the site, or other agencies, to accept content removed.

Request to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements above, y'all or an authorized representative tin can asking a removal of the image from Google search results. To make a request, click the button below.

Tip: You'll need to provide screenshots of the prototype you want u.s.a. to remove. We encourage you to edit the screenshots to obscure the sexually explicit portions, merely delight ensure we can still place the epitome.

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Remove image of a minor (anyone under eighteen)

Google removes images of anyone beneath the age of 18 from search results at the request of the private under 18 or their parent or guardian, with the exception of cases of compelling public interest or newsworthiness. This means these images won't appear in the Images tab or every bit thumbnails in any feature in Google Search. This article is intended to support yous through the process for removal requests of such content from Google search results.

Important: If your request is to remove an explicit prototype of a minor, report content that is sexually abusive towards children.

Requirements

For us to consider the content for removal, it must meet all of the following requirements:

  1. The URLs submitted are paradigm URLs.
    • Spider web URLs (pages with both text and images) are not eligible for removal under this policy, which seeks to limit the presence of images in Google search results.
  2. The imagery includes an identifiable individual who is currently under the age of 18.
    • We'll also remove images in the tragic situation of a child who has died before reaching the age of 18.
  3. The removal requestor is either the private themself, a legal guardian for the individual, or an authorized representative of either.

Asking to remove image from Google Search

If the image meets the requirements higher up, you lot or an authorized representative can request a removal of the image from Google search results. To make a request, click the button below.

Of import: We but review the URLs that you or your authorized representative submits in the grade.

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Remove image for legal reasons

Nosotros remove content from Google's services under applicable laws.

Intellectual property outcome

To request the removal of an image from Google Search due to an intellectual holding violation, like copyright infringement or circumvention, trademark infringement, and counterfeit, click the button below.

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Other legal reasons

We can remove images from Google Search for other legal reasons, specifically requests associated with:

  • Court orders, where a court determined that specific content is unlawful.
  • Child sexual abuse material, which is whatever visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct that involves a modest.
  • Legal issue: a legal upshot not already listed.

To request the removal of an image from Google Search for a legal reason listed above, click the button beneath.

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