Matt Cutts Talks About “How One Can Remove A Search Page On Google”
Whenever you surf the Internet, you may come across a lot of people’s views and comments. This is also not hard to find people making wrong comments or writing wrong things aboutothers. The latter always want to remove these crazy pages from the Internet, as you can’t stop the former from doing so. Google’s Matt Cutts came up with the solution for all those people who want to remove these kind of stuff or pages from the Internet. He says:
“Unfortunately there’s not much I can do. The page you pointed out is not spam, and pretty much the only removals (at least in the U.S., which is what I know about) that we do for legal reasons are if a court orders us. We typically say that if person A doesn’t like a webpage B, only removing page B out of Google’s search results doesn’t do any good because webpage B is still there (e.g. it can be found by going to it directly or through other search engines). In that sense, the presence of that page in Google’s index is just reflecting the fact that the page exists on the wider web.
The best actions for you from our perspective can be one of a couple options. Either contact whoever put up webpage B and convince them to modify or to take the page down. Or if the page is doing something against the law, get a court to agree with you and force webpage B to be removed or changed. We really don’t want to be taking sides in a he-said/she-said dispute, so that’s why we typically say “Get the page fixed, changed, or removed on the web and then Google will update our index with those changes the next time that we crawl that page.†Our policies outside the U.S. might be different; I’m not as familiar with how legal stuff works outside the U.S.â€
Visit the official documentation page on “how to remove a page from Google’s search results.â€
March 4th, 2009 at 6:44 am
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