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How to stay hidden in Google Search<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Jared Newman<\/div>
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Hello, Square readers!<\/strong> Jared Newman here. This article comes from Advisorator<\/a>, my weekly newsletter for practical tech advice. You can learn more about it at the bottom of this post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, Google made it incredibly easy to look up someone’s address, phone number, age, and other personal info.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All you had to do was type in a person’s name and where they live, and you’d get all kinds of details from sites like Whitepages and Spokeo, which pull together that info from public and private sources. Creepy as this is, doing anything about it has always been a slog, and most people never bothered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, that’s starting to change. Google now offers a simple removal tool for hiding those people search sites from its search engine, and with a little more legwork, you can delist yourself from the sites themselves. It’s easier than you might think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google’s new removal tool<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Google launched its search results removal tool last fall, letting users de-list pages that include their personal details with just a few clicks. Here’s how it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n