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Concerns About Search Results: A webpage

In a nutshell

In order to remove website content from Google's index, the website's webmaster must do one of the following actions:

Change the content of the page itself
Use a robots.txt file or include meta tags on the webpage. This tells Google to exclude the site from search results.

To get instructions for removing a webpage from Google's index, first tell us how you're associated with the website that contains content that you'd like to remove. Please select a radio button below:

I'm the webmaster of the website.
I'm not the webmaster.

If you are the webmaster of the site containing content that shouldn't be included in Google's index, please see these instructions.

If you are not the owner or webmaster of the site containing content that shouldn't be included in Google's index, please first contact the webmaster with your request.

Once the webmaster removes the page or changes its content, Google's search results will automatically update when it next crawls the site. After the webmaster makes these changes, you can use the webpage removal request tool to ask us to expedite the removal of the old webpage content (also known as 'cached copy'). For help submitting your removal request, please review instructions for using the webpage removal request tool.