You can now ask Google to remove overly personal information about you from search results.

If we think about Google, we think about many things. Not only Chromium and Gmail seeker and the most used mail in the world. Google means information, lots of information. business America has a great deal of human knowledge, and this is sometimes dangerous.

Google implements the ability to control your personal information (PII) in search results, as promised at the I/O conference in May.

The new feature is already present in the Google app on your Android phone when you click on your avatar, in the menu item “Results about you”.

In a nutshell, if you come across sensitive personal information about yourself while browsing the Internet, you can touch the three dot menu in the search list and select the new option “Delete result”.

In the existing version of the results about you also you can track Google’s progress with takedown requests, which can be filtered by categories such as In Progress or Approved.

What can remove Google from your search engine

After you have seen this first paragraph, you should know what information is considered confidential by the company. That is, not everything that we do not like, the search engine is obliged to eliminate. We don’t have Chrome.

The search giant will satisfy our request if the site has your:

• Confidential government identification (ID) numbers, such as the US Social Security number.
• Bank account numbers
• credit card numbers
• handwritten signature images
• images of identification documents
• Very personal, limited and official records such as medical records
• Personal contact information (physical addresses, phone numbers and email addresses)
• Confidential Access Credentials

The caveat, of course, is thatIt only blocks people from viewing the website in Google search results on their browser, but it is still hosted on their server and you need to contact the owner directly if you want them to remove it from the web as well.

To determine the relevance of a query, a form or application on the Google site requires the provision of screenshots of search results and content, because “a web page can have content related to multiple people“. That’s a big step.