{"id":30592,"date":"2025-08-04T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30592"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:15:49","slug":"get-an-email-alert-anytime-someone-uses-google-to-search-for-you-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/get-an-email-alert-anytime-someone-uses-google-to-search-for-you-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Get an Email Alert Anytime Someone Uses Google to Search for You online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Get an Email Alert Anytime Someone Uses Google to Search for You online<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/results0.png\" alt=\"Google's Results About You feature - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"540\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google has a feature called <strong>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. When it finds your information on a website, it sends you an email alert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">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 links to specific websites from its search results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"5:1-5:271\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To use the Results About You feature, you need to have a Google Account. Once you have a Google Account, you can go to the<a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/results-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>Results About You<\/strong> website and sign in<\/a>. The \u201cResults About You\u201d dashboard will send notifications every time new results appear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:282\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">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<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">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 make your personal information more difficult to find online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:91\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here are some tips for using the Results About You feature and the Remove Your Result tool:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"13:1-13:150\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Review your Results About You alerts regularly and request that Google remove any links to websites you don\u2019t want to appear in search results.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"14:1-14:97\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Be sure to update your Results About You profile with any changes to your personal information.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"15:1-16:0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Be careful about sharing your personal information online. Only<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-sourcepos=\"15:1-16:0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">share your information with websites and organizations that you trust.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When you visit Google\u2019s Results About You website, you\u2019ll find it\u2019s easy to use.\u00a0You can get a good idea of what to expect when you visit the<a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/results-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Results About You website<\/a> from the screenshots below. These screenshots were taken after logging in to my Google account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/results.png\" alt=\"Google's Results About You feature - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"531\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/results1.png\" alt=\"Google's Results About You feature - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"914\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/results2.png\" alt=\"Google's Results About You feature - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"984\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/results3.png\" alt=\"Google's Results About You feature - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"1870\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Fill in the forms and get notified when someone searches Google for you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Be sure that you fill in all information correctly on the <a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/results-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 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<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Important note: <\/strong>Google\u2019s \u201cResults About You\u201d tool <strong>is currently available to<\/strong> everyone with a Gmail account in the United States, Australia, and select European countries.\u00a0 Google is planning to roll this service out to more countries in the future.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/myactivity.google.com\/results-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> If you\u2019re ready, visit this page to get started.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get an Email Alert Anytime Someone 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 personal information. When it finds your information on\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/get-an-email-alert-anytime-someone-uses-google-to-search-for-you-online\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2247,4515,1670,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592"}],"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=30592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30593,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30592\/revisions\/30593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}