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How to easily remove information from Google cache

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A friend of ours wanted to remove certain personal information from Google’s cache of a website she registered with. It was located at her profile page. We helped search the procedures for removing data from their cache. Took quite awhile to sort through the various instructions but we finally obtained the steps and she successfully got the personal information removed.

Here we share all that we have learnt through the process which requires only 2 simple steps.

Step 1) Modifying the page

Depending on your needs, there are 2 types of cache removal:
A) Permanent
To remove google’s current cached copy and prevent any further caches:
Add a meta noarchive tag after the <head> tag on the page.
<meta name=”robots” content=”noarchive”>

B) Temporary
To remove google’s current cached copy (The updated information will be cached again after 3 months):
Change or remove the related information on the page.

Note:
If you don’t have access to modify the page, contact the person in charge.
If you can’t contact the person in charge, skip to step 2.

Step 2) Request Google to remove cache

1) Go to Webpage removal request tool. You’ll need to log into your Google account.
2) Click “New Removal Request”
3) Select “Information or image that appears in the Google search results.”
4) There will be 3 options to choose from, select one of the 3 and proceed.

Additional Information

To prevent Google and other search engines from indexing the page:
Add a meta noindex tag after the <head> tag on the page.
<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, nofollow”>

To remove your site from Yahoo search engine, contact them via
http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/ysearch/cgi_search_support

References

Google’s instructions for removing cached copy
Noachive tags
Noindex tags
A more thorough guide



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  1. Neo on June 19th, 2007 3:40 am

    Thanks for the tip. Could be handy if I wanted to remove my cached pages from Google cache in the future.

  2. zhongg on June 20th, 2007 3:30 pm

    Yeah, it’ll save you a considerable amount of time :)

  3. GARY STYS on June 27th, 2007 7:15 am

    I need some help. Please contact me at my email listed above.

    thanks

  4. joy punnoose on July 16th, 2007 7:23 am

    Remove my informationfrom google

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  6. Claire on April 2nd, 2008 10:34 pm

    Thanks for the info. A great help.

  7. rjain on September 29th, 2008 2:19 am

    Very useful guide. Used noarchive meta tag for my pages

  8. Pamela on October 6th, 2008 5:18 pm

    Please help me remove some information

    thank you

    Pamela




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