How To Remove Your Phone Number From Search Engines

We had a user ask this question in our forum and i thought of sharing this in the blog so that it can be useful to people who are not aware of such a thing.

Here’s the question:

I typed my home phone number in the google search and it comes up with my name, address, and a link to a map of where my house is. I know there is a way you can remove it just by typing something into the google search engine.

Some of our member’s answered this question and here’s the answer:

Answer: How To Remove Your Phone Number From Google Search

To do this: Type in your full phone number using dashes like this:
555-123-4567.

If your number appears in the mapping database, an icon resembling a telephone will appear to left of the entry on the results page.

Click on this icon and it will take you to a page containing a description of the service, and a link to request your number be removed!

Recheck your phone # to be sure it has been removed. Also, if you have children, please check their phone # too!

Here the direct link: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/pbremoval.html

Let us know if this worked for you!!

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9 Responses to “How To Remove Your Phone Number From Search Engines”

Gunady (2 comments) on January 26th, 2008 at 9:26 am

Hei…this is kinda scary and annoying. Thanks for sharing the tips. But how can our phone number be disseminate at the firs place? how can we anticipate?
Gunady (2 comments) on January 26th, 2008 at 9:28 am

I think it would nice to see comment subscription (not that I have one though )
freemovies (2 comments) on January 28th, 2008 at 12:16 am

very useful tip ty
Puneet (8 comments) on January 28th, 2008 at 6:01 am

Its a good question and doubt which seems to be cleared now …

this suggestion wud surely help me out in future ref too… and i also get annoyed with the email spam i get everyday …. is there any way to get our email ID safe from emal spammers ?
ADAC (1 comments) on January 30th, 2008 at 4:49 am

Great tip. I didn’t know you had a choice in matter.
Brown (4 comments) on February 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am

ok.I will try this variant. Thank you for placement of the blog.
Do Follow Search Engine (1 comments) on February 23rd, 2008 at 6:41 am

talk about invasion of privacy! It should be an opt in not an opt out!

btw. thx for submitting this blog to my do follow search engine
Opony (1 comments) on March 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Thank you for this solution. I translate this article and inset on my site in Poland.
seo updates (1 comments) on June 10th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

You provide very decent information which proved helpful for me. keep on updating with such useful tips.

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