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Get an email alert anytime anyone uses Google to search for you online<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Google has a feature called Results About You<\/strong> that alerts you when your personal information gets posted online. This feature uses Google Search to scan the web for your name, address, phone number, email address, and other personal information. It sends you an email alert when it finds your information on a website.<\/span><\/p>\n You can pair the Results About You feature with the Remove Your Result tool to make it difficult for people to find your personal information online. The Remove Your Result tool allows you to request that Google remove info about you and links to specific websites containing info about you from its search results.<\/span><\/p>\n To use the Results About You feature, you must have a Google Account. Once you have a Google Account, you can sign in to the Results About You website. The \u201cResults About You\u201d dashboard will send notifications when new results about you appear.<\/span><\/p>\n In a time when the personal and financial data of billions of people is floating around online, ripe for exploitation by data brokers, privacy has become a major concern. Google acknowledged this issue when it launched the Results About You tool.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s important to note that Google cannot remove all personal information from the web. However, the Results About You feature and the Remove Your Result tool can help you to make your personal information more difficult to find online.<\/span><\/p>\n Here are some tips for using the Results About You feature and the Remove Your Result tool:<\/span><\/p>\n When you visit Google\u2019s Results About You website<\/a>,\u00a0 you\u2019ll find it\u2019s easy to use You can get a good idea of what to expect when you visit the Results About You website<\/a> from the screenshots below. These screenshots were taken after logging in to my Google account.<\/span><\/p>\n Fill in the forms and get notified when someone searches Google for you<\/span><\/p>\n Be sure that you fill in all information correctly on the Google Results About You website<\/a>. When you\u2019ve completed filling out the forms,\u00a0 you\u2019ll be notified by email anytime someone searches for you online using Google.<\/span><\/p>\n Important note: <\/strong>Google\u2019s \u201cResults About You\u201d tool is currently available in English only and only in the United States<\/strong>. Google states they plan to roll out Results About You to other countries in the future.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n If you\u2019re ready, visit this page to get started.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All About Google’s “Results About You” Feature Get an email alert anytime anyone uses Google to search for you online Google has a feature called Results About You that alerts you when your personal information gets posted online. This feature uses Google Search to scan the web for your name, address, phone number, email address, and other\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2247,1670,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29206,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204\/revisions\/29206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Google's](\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/results0.png\")
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