"Results about you" is a free Google tool that looks for Google Search results showing your phone number, home address or email address, and lets you ask Google to stop showing them. It changes what Google Search displays. It does not change the page itself: Google's own help page says that removing a result "doesn't mean that the info is gone from the internet." The people-search site that published your details still has them, so the tool works best alongside opt-out requests sent to those sites.
This guide covers what the tool does, how to set it up, what it does not cover, and how to pair it with requests to the sites themselves.
What Results about you covers
According to Google's help page (checked 2026-10-06), the tool handles three kinds of contact information:
- phone numbers
- home addresses
- email addresses
You can also give it a nickname or maiden name so it searches for the versions of your name that sites actually use. You can add more than one phone number, address and email.
Google's broader policy on personal information lists more categories it may act on — government ID numbers such as Social Security numbers, bank account and card numbers, images of signatures or ID documents, private records such as medical records, and confidential login credentials. Those go through a separate request form, described further down.
Who can use it
Google describes the feature as "currently rolling out for users who are over the age of 18 in certain markets." If you are under 18, or the tool is not available where you live, Google points to its detailed removal request form instead.
The tool is meant for your own information. Google's help page says that a request submitted through Results about you on behalf of someone else, from your own Google Account, "may be denied." To ask on someone else's behalf, use the detailed form, which asks whether the content is about you or about "someone I am authorized to represent (parent, guardian, lawyer, etc.)".
How to set it up
These steps follow Google's help page as of 2026-10-06. Google changes its menus, so the labels may differ slightly.
- Open the tool. On the web, go to
myactivity.google.com/results-about-you. In the Google app, tap your profile picture or initial and choose "Results about you". - Select "Get started" (or "Settings" if you have used it before).
- Enter your name and the contact details you want Google to look for. Add old addresses and old phone numbers too — people-search pages often show past addresses.
- Turn on notifications if you want an email or app alert when Google finds new matching results.
Google says it checks regularly whether your name and contact details match results in Search.
How to request removal of a result
- Open the "To review" tab on the Results about you page.
- Select a result to see where it comes from and which of your details it shows.
- Choose "Request to remove" and follow the prompts.
Google says you will get an email confirming the request. Each request then shows a status on the same page: "In progress", "Approved", "Denied" or "Undone", along with the date and a request ID.
What "approved" means
When Google approves a request, the result stops appearing in Google Search — usually for all searches, and sometimes only for searches that include your name. Google calls these "full removal" and "partial removal."
When Google denies a request, it emails you the reason. Google's policy says it may decline when the content is newsworthy or otherwise in the public interest, and its help page says it does not act on results from educational or government institutions or from news sites.
Either way, the page itself is untouched. Anyone who visits the people-search site directly, or uses a different search engine, can still find it.
Why this is not the same as an opt-out
A people-search site builds a profile from records it collects and publishes it on its own domain. Google indexes that page. Results about you asks Google to stop pointing to it. An opt-out asks the site to stop publishing it.
Doing only the Google side leaves the profile reachable through the site's own search box, through other search engines, and through any partner sites that share the same data. Doing only the site side can leave an old copy in Google's results for a while. Doing both covers more ground.
Neither step is permanent on its own. People-search sites rebuild profiles from new records, and a new page can appear at a new URL. See why your information reappears.
A practical order of operations
- Set up Results about you first. It gives you a list of the pages Google already shows with your details, which is a useful starting map of which sites list you.
- Send opt-out requests to the sites on that list. Each site has its own process. Our per-site guides walk through them — for example Whitepages, Spokeo, TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch, That's Them and ClustrMaps. The free kit builds request letters for the most common sites in your browser and gives you a checklist to track them.
- Request removal of the Google results. You can do this at the same time as step 2. There is no need to wait for the site to act first.
- Check the live page, not just the search result. A result disappearing from Google does not tell you whether the site removed the profile. Open the page directly. See how to check a removal worked.
- Leave notifications on. If Google later finds a new page with your details, you can repeat the process for that page and that site.
The detailed removal form
For information Results about you does not handle — an ID number, a bank or card number, an image of your signature, or a request for someone you are authorized to represent — use Google's personal information removal form. It covers:
- address, phone number and email address
- confidential government ID numbers, such as a Social Security or passport number
- bank account and credit card numbers
- handwritten signatures and images of ID documents
- medical and other restricted official records
- confidential login credentials
Google's policy also covers doxxing: content that combines your contact details with explicit or implicit threats, or that aggregates a significant amount of your personal information without a legitimate purpose.
Things to keep in mind
- It only affects Google. Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines run their own processes.
- It does not contact the site. Google does not ask the people-search site to take anything down.
- Results can be denied. Public-interest content, news, and government or educational pages are generally out of scope.
- The tool's availability varies. Google describes it as rolling out in certain markets, for adults.