How do I remove myself from the search engines?

I did not post this information in Google you did.. you have my home listed as a hotel. This is really harassment as I get phone calls at all hours of the night wanting to book a sleeping room in my home. I am a home sales office for the Hyatt Hotel Corp in Chicago. PLease remove my home address in Chesterfield Missouri(that you have listed as a Hyatt hotel) from your web site!

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Who is this "you" you think you're talking to?

This is Ask Leo! - not Google. I have no knowledge of you, what you're
doing or why you're posting this complaint on my web site.

And PLEASE read the article you've just commented on.

Leo
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Please help me get rid of Google, it has taken over Yahoo as my opening page I always have to go back to the history to bring Yahoo back, how do I get rid of Google?

Great article. Helps me know we are all screwed if an ex girlfriend or friend wants to talk crap about you.

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That service does not do what the original question asked. It does not REMOVE
anything from the search engine.

If that service works, all it does is bury the information lower in search
results. It's still quite findable.

Leo

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Well, Leo, you're absolutely right, however you have not found another solution to this problem, have you?

My friend's girlfriend got into a big mess, which was aired on national TV. After that her name appeared in a few articles online and she was very embarassed to see that every time someone Googled her name... So, what's the solution for her??? Nothing that you proposed would help her... E-mail Google a dozen times - they are not going to remove the pages from the index... E-mail CNN, where the article shows, - they could care less...

I whitnessed this service "burry" the negative results far enough to the 3rd page, where no one even cares to look. She's happy, my friend is happy, everyone's happy... Isn't that the bottom line? You don't care if it's erased or not - you just don't want the embarassment... and if it doesn't show on the first page, 99% of the searchers will never find out about that article, website, or whatever it is.

Am I wrong? Tina, in the post above, has a similar problem with her phone number listed - I'm sure there's a similar solution for that...

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Look at the title to the article: "How do I remove myself from the search
engines?" You're right, I've not found an answer, because as the article
states, I don't believe there is one.

"Burying" your information lower in the search results is NOT the same as
removing it. Depending on the situation burying it may not be anywhere near
what people are looking for. For example, a dedicated stalker or private
investigator would almost certainly look past page three of the results.

So while burying might be enough for some people, it's most definitely not
enough for many.

And it's not the answer to the question that I was asked.

Leo

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but sometimes some webmasters need to do some experiments on one of them websites and didn't want visitors to reach for this website , any way i think that most intelligent search engine is Google (because google archive any website on the internet once you setup it without need to add it in search engine such as yahoo) , so if you want to remove your website from search engine , you can saw these useful links:
google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35303

google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35302

google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301&topic=13511

google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=508&topic=13511

Why would we pay a company to push our names back only 2 or 3 webpages when we can do that OURSELVES by posting our names into bulletin boards and so forth . . . the problem is, we can't get them REMOVED !

I'm facing this problem as well ! I had a man get mad at me after filing a report and now my name has the word "prostitute" next to it when I'm Googled. Being in a conservative industry, this is not good !

It's sad that the only way to escape it, in reality, is to change our names !

Overnight, I was able to push the negative information to the 2nd page . . . geez, why would I pay someone $1,000 to only push it back 3 pages ?

If I want to bury my information, I simply have to post positive info. all over the internet with my full name attached to it on a consistent, daily basis . . . I figure, 10 times a day and eventually, it will all be pushed back very far.

i decided to go post my name in some forums and blogs for the same reason, and the people who where mad at me posted comments and responses back and now I have like ten times the bad press, i am so upset. guess i have to check some of these companies or something to help me, just be careful wher you post.