google results about youMay 28, 2026Leak Check Me

Google Results About You: How to Find and Remove Your Info (2026)

Use Google Results About You to find and request removal of your phone, address, email, and government ID from Search—then remove the source page too.

Google's Results About You tool is free, lives at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you, and can monitor Google Search for personal information you provide. On February 10, 2026, Google expanded the tool so it can also find and accept removal requests for government-issued ID numbers such as a driver's license, passport, or Social Security number.

It is also a thermometer, not a cure. Here is how to set it up, what it actually does, and what it leaves untouched.

One-sentence answer: Google's Results About You scans Google Search for pages containing your personal information and lets you request those pages be removed from search results — but it does not delete the underlying pages and does not touch Bing, DuckDuckGo, or any data broker.

See the Google-removal and source-cleanup hub if you want the short workflow, or use the five-question Removal Route Check to choose Google, source-site, both, or review-first paths. You can also run the free exposure scan to identify candidate public people-search and broker links before deciding what to remove. A scan is an inventory, not confirmation that every candidate match belongs to you.

Prefer a walkthrough? Read the transcript-first tutorials for Google’s Results About You and source-page removal. The Google hub remains the canonical starting point for the two-path workflow.

What Results About You removes in 2026

Google's current help documentation says Results About You can monitor for and help request removal of results containing your home address, phone number, email address, Social Security number, passport number, or driver's license number. You can add name variants and multiple contact details, turn on notifications, review matches, and follow each request in the dashboard.

Google reviews requests against its removal policies. A request can be denied when a result is considered valuable to the public, including some pages from government or educational institutions and newspapers. The feature is also still rolling out for adults in certain markets. If the tool is unavailable, the same Google Search removal help flow covers additional private information and a detailed request form.

Most importantly, approval removes a result from Google Search; it does not erase the information from the page that published it. Google's Results About You help page recommends contacting the website owner when you want the source page changed or removed.

TL;DR

Free Google tool at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you.
You add your name, contact details, and supported government ID numbers; Google scans Search and can alert you when matches appear.
You can submit a removal request for any match in one click.
It only removes results from Google Search. The source page still exists; Bing and other engines still show it.
It does not file opt-outs with data brokers — which is where the real supply is coming from.

What the tool actually does

Sign in to your Google account at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you and add the personal information you want Google to monitor:

Home addresses
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Supported government ID numbers
Your name, including relevant variants

Google regularly checks Search for results that match the details you supplied. When it finds a match, it shows up in your dashboard. You can click "Request to remove" and follow the request status. Approved removals stop the page from appearing in Google Search.

According to Google's public help documentation, Results About You covers personal contact info and supported government ID numbers. Google's broader private-information removal flow also covers categories such as financial credentials, confidential login credentials, private medical records, and pictures of a signature or ID.

Why it is a real upgrade over the old process

Before this tool existed, removing personal info from Google Search meant filling out separate forms for each result — a slow, repetitive task with confusing eligibility rules. Results About You consolidates the workflow into a dashboard, monitors continuously rather than one-shot, and is free.

It is also one of the only first-party tools any major search engine offers for self-service PII removal. Bing has a similar form, but no monitoring dashboard. DuckDuckGo uses Bing's index and inherits whatever Bing does or does not remove. Yandex, Baidu, and most non-Western engines have no comparable process at all.

So as a free first move, set it up. Five minutes.

The four things it does not do

This is where the marketing copy and the reality diverge.

1. It does not delete the underlying page

Google can stop showing a Spokeo profile page in its search results. It cannot remove the page from Spokeo. The data is still live on the source, still indexed by other engines, still retrievable by anyone who knows to look on Spokeo directly. From Google's own removal policies: "If the content is removed from the source page, Google will eventually no longer show it in our search results."

In practice that means a removal in Google is a thinner, browser-search-only fix. The address is still on the broker's database, still being sold to advertisers and identity-resolution platforms, still being aggregated into the joined profile that actually matters for identity theft, doxxing, and stalking.

2. It only covers Google Search

A Google delisting does not automatically remove a result from another search engine, a direct link, or the source website. If your goal is to make the information unavailable at its origin, contact the publisher or complete the source site's opt-out process too.

3. It does not touch AI training data

Most large language models were trained on a snapshot of the public web. If your address was on a people-search profile when Common Crawl scraped it, it is now sitting in a model weights file somewhere. Removing the source from Google's index does not unlearn it from the model.

In practice this matters less than it sounds — modern LLMs largely refuse to surface PII unprompted — but it is a reminder that "remove from Google" and "remove from the internet" are different things by orders of magnitude.

4. Availability varies by market

Google says some Results About You features are still rolling out to users over 18 in certain markets. If the dashboard is unavailable, use Google's detailed removal request form. Legal removal rights and processes can also vary by location.

How to set it up in 5 minutes

Go to myactivity.google.com/results-about-you and sign in.
Add the personal info you want monitored — your full name, current and recent addresses, phone numbers, emails. Use variants you actually appear under (maiden name, middle initial, etc.).
Choose notification frequency. "Right away" via email is the default and the right setting.
Review the "To review" tab and any notifications Google sends.
For each eligible match, click "Request to remove" and follow its status in the dashboard. Google notes there can be a delay between approval and disappearance from Search.

What Google's tool misses that you need to fix yourself

Here's the gap, concretely. A typical hit on Results About You looks like this:

Spokeo — Jane Doe, age 38, 123 Maple St, Springfield IL
spokeo.com/Jane-Doe/Illinois/Springfield/p123456789

You can delist that URL from Google in a click. But Spokeo still has your profile. So does Whitepages, BeenVerified, Radaris, MyLife, Intelius, Nuwber, FastPeopleSearch, TruePeopleSearch, and roughly 150 other people-search sites you've never heard of that all reaggregate the same county and voter-records data every 30–90 days.

Removing yourself from those sites at the source is the actual fix. It is more work, but it is the only thing that interrupts the supply, and it is the only thing that protects you on Bing, in AI assistants, and from anyone who searches the site directly.

For a broader inventory of free first-step tools — Google's Results About You is one of them, but there are nine more worth running — see our list of 10 free tools to check what's online about you.

What you can do today

Set up Results About You. Five minutes, free, real value.
For every Google match that's a people-search site, also file the opt-out at the source site. Otherwise the page comes back to Bing, to AI tools, and to anyone who knows the URL.
Set a recurring recheck. Source pages and broker profiles can change or reappear, so a one-time search is not continuing protection.
Bookmark the Google removal help center for non-standard cases — explicit imagery, doxxed pages, financial info — which have separate, faster lanes.
Decide whether to handle this yourself or use a service. Compare actual coverage, authorization, proof, recheck cadence, cancellation, and deletion handling before paying.

The bigger frame

Google's tool is a thermostat. It tells you what is being shown in one specific search engine and gives you one specific remediation. It does not fix the building's heating system. The building is the data broker ecosystem — the thousands of sites that buy and sell your address, phone, and family data, and the public records pipeline that feeds them faster than any tool can remove.

If you want to fix the building, the move is broker opt-outs at the source, ideally on patrol because they relist. That is the entire job description of a privacy agent like Leak Check Me. Scrub the source, watch for relistings, repeat.

Find the leak. Scrub the link. Google's tool is one good lever. It is not the whole machine.