Hi Everyone

I thought i would share this with you and hopefully it does help with privacy issues out there. Only a couple of days ago i learned that Google send out 'web crawlers' and take snapshots of your webpage which they use to help people do web searches.

Even though you may have deleted or edited your webpage, the old link will still be there which i have discovered.

Example 1:

A certain person who is harrassing my family has found out my new Minti account because i named her in one of my blogs. I then did remove her name a few days later but unfortunately a 'web crawler' had took a snapshot of my page before it got edited.

Example 2:

Old links to MINTI accounts still lie out there even though they have been deleted. I just had to type in my old MINTI name "Destiiny23" and it came up to my old MINTI account even though when you open it, it says 'account deleted' it still has my profile picture of my children there. Im sure there are alot of deleted MINTI accounts still out there.

Now the only way to do get rid of it which i found out is by requesting Google to delete it or notify them of that page. So i am writing down the steps i took to do this and hopefully it works out for you.

1. Log onto this Link which takes you to Google Webmaster Tools:

www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin

2. You will have to create an account to do this, which is pretty easy to follow there steps. You can use your existing email account.

3. You will then be taken to this screen:

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

I chose the first one "Information or images that appears in Google search results"  then press Next

4. The next screen I picked

"The site owner has removed this page/image from the web or blocked it by being indexed" to use on Example 2

"The site owner has modified this page so that it no longer contains the information or image that concerns me" to use on Example 1

5. Now depending on which one you pick, all you need to do now is note down the URL of the site. To do that you.

a. Open a new window/Tab on your browser.

b. Then type in the google search toolbar eg, Destiiny23 or I used the person's name .

c. When the search results appear, you right click on the title of the search that you want deleted/removed and press Copy.

d. Go back to the removal page and Paste the URL link in the "Webpage or Image URL" box

6. You then press "Submit Request"

They say it takes about 90 days for approval but what i have read up on some sites they say it can take a few hours to only a couple of weeks. Anyway, lets see how we go. Im still waiting for my results. Hopefully it does work out for you.

Thanks i hope i helped someone out there.

Results

Sorry it has taken a while to reply in writing down my results. It actually didn’t take very long for me to get an answer. It took only about 3 days before google replied to me but unfortunately it was not the answers I wanted. Both request were denied for one of these reasons, which they did not say which particular one:   1.The content you submitted for cache removal appears on the live third-party page.   2. The URL you submitted no longer returns as a result for the search query you entered.   3. The cached copy of this page has already been removed from our search results.   4. Your search terms appear only in links to the page you submitted.   5. You've recently submitted a duplicate request.   For Example 1, I ended up just waiting for a webcrawler to go by again, in which they did and when I type the persons name in the search, it does not appear and link them to my blog. For Example 2, I think reason 1 they gave relates to it in which they detailed more thoroughly by saying:

“As you may know, information in our search results is actually located on third-party, publicly available webpages. Even if we removed this page from our index, the content in question would still be available on the web.

To remove this information from our search results and from the web, you'll need to contact the webmaster of this third-party site. Once the webmaster makes the change, you can submit a request to remove the cached copy or simply wait for our search results to reflect this change the next time we crawl the page.”

In other words I may have to contact the webmaster first (admin) and see what they can do.

Thanks

Just an Update

I just wanted to add on here that i have contacted the webmaster (admin: Clay) and he has removed the photo of my children for me which still showed up before if you type in my old minti account name.