Anyone know how to remove stuff that Google picks up under your personal name IF and WHEN the web-site that placed this stuff ignores your requests to remove this material?

I have been trying to remove stuff that Google picks up under my first and last name and places in first position for well over 15 months.

When Mr. Gary Corsair of The Villages Daily Sun researched me for his article he did on my survivors' rights stuff, he called me about my explanation of this garbage he found on the Internet that comes up in first position for my name. This article on me and my work came out on Memorial Day 2007 (Monday May 28?). He called me over the weekend just before Memorial Day (May 26?).

More than a year ago Google responded to my e-mail about removal of this material that it is was up to the web-site that put it up on the Internet to remove this. My hundreds of requests to the orginating web-site for removal have gone ignored.

[Lil Dancer]

Tal, I don't see how it would be possible unless you went to each website individually and asked. I'm a computer person, and have made up my own web pages, and to increase traffic on the pages, I inserted code in appropriate places which triggered more hits on the search engines, such as Google. That may be what is happening on your google searches - the individual websites are optimized to pick up information such as your name, and get a high number of google hits. Many of these websites have advertising, and may get paid based on the # of hits, so they may be reluctant to change. If the information is false, however, can't you threaten to sue them?

Another option would be to generate a website of your own, with a lot of different pages on it, and optimize those pages so they come up first on a google of your name. then, the offending website you talk about wouldnt show up as first, but it would be down the page, or on the second page of a search. Thing is, it takes awhile to get into google, and especially to come up on the first page, and often times it costs money - you have to pay google. I always had good luck getting optimized with the Yahoo search engine, but not with google. You might want to contact someone in the computer club - there are probably some computer junkies that might have a lot of expertise at this.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by Lil Dancer

Tal, I don't see how it would be possible unless you went to each website individually and asked. I'm a computer person, and have made up my own web pages, and to increase traffic on the pages, I inserted code in appropriate places which triggered more hits on the search engines, such as Google. That may be what is happening on your google searches - the individual websites are optimized to pick up information such as your name, and get a high number of google hits. Many of these websites have advertising, and may get paid based on the # of hits, so they may be reluctant to change. If the information is false, however, can't you threaten to sue them?

Another option would be to generate a website of your own, with a lot of different pages on it, and optimize those pages so they come up first on a google of your name. then, the offending website you talk about wouldnt show up as first, but it would be down the page, or on the second page of a search. Thing is, it takes awhile to get into google, and especially to come up on the first page, and often times it costs money - you have to pay google. I always had good luck getting optimized with the Yahoo search engine, but not with google. You might want to contact someone in the computer club - there are probably some computer junkies that might have a lot of expertise at this.

Good luck.

There is nothing false so much as misleading on this web-site. I did not know that the e-mails I had sent them were being put out there for any idiot to make a comment on which is what happened.

Thanks for the suggestion about the Villages Computer Club. I have been a member for about two years but have not thought about what they might suggest on how to remove this garbage.

[villages07]

Tal,

I was reading the latest Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine today and they had an article on this very topic. Found it on their website:

http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/ar...repuation.html

Good Luck.

Originally Posted by villages07

Tal,

I was reading the latest Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine today and they had an article on this very topic. Found it on their website:

http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/ar...repuation.html

Good Luck.

Thanks Villages07. You cannot really tell what I wrote and what I did not on the archives I sent in the We've Got Mail section I am concerned about with respect to my Internet reputation. They just lump everything together and put them in as posted by "Return, Return, Return".

What concerns me is that these e-mails I sent were in 2002 and 2003 and I cannot get them removed.

Good article BTW.