Google is strengthening features to protect privacy and remove explicit content from search engine results.
Google has announced several new measures and functions to better manage the personal information that may hang on the web about you, but also to prevent young people and families from inadvertently coming across adult content. Thus, explicit images that may appear in Google search results will be hidden by default. This new feature, which will be deployed worldwide in August, can be deactivated in the settings of SafeSearch (to be consulted at this link).
A little less than a year ago, Google launched a new tool allowing Internet users to request the removal of search results containing personal information (phone numbers, postal addresses, e-mails, etc.). The procedure already existed before, but it was difficult to access, and required filling out a form. Google then decided to integrate it directly into the results page.
The novelty here is that the option will take the form of a more complete dashboard which will indicate to the Internet user if data of a confidential nature appears in search results. From this panel, it will be possible to request its removal. Google will also offer to automatically notify the user when new results appear with this type of information.
The dashboard will be available by clicking on the Google account profile picture, or simply by going to goo.gle/resultsaboutyou. Be careful though, this only concerns American Internet users but other countries and languages than English will be offered very soon.
In the same area, Google will allow Internet users to delete personal explicit images that they had published online and then deleted (which may concern a creator). It becomes possible to ask Google to remove this content from the results of a search, if it is published without authorization. Please note that this content will no longer be visible in Google, but it will still be visible on other search engines and on the web.
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