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Comment from Leo on 2009-10-18

2009-10-19T00:57:27Z

I'm closing comments on this article because it does appear to be attracting people who're just interested in pushing specific solutions that may, or may not, be legitimate. In any case they cannot (I'll say it again, they can not) remove you from the search engines. All they can do at best is push you further down in the search results so that you're not on the first page or soon thereafter. As a commentor earlier stated: "do your homework" - this is an area where it's very easy to make promises, take money, and do very little.

18-Oct-2009

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Comment from Gregory on 2009-10-18

2009-10-18T10:19:06Z

Hi Craig looks like you need to remove your name from Google search pretty quick. I would recommend you to Zallas Technologies, they're fast and effective as Ive found out from my experience from them. Here's the link to their website
http://www.zallas.com/remove-bad-search-engine-results-bad-press.html

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Comment from craig loisy on 2009-10-17

2009-10-18T03:22:11Z

I need some help ....please.
There is an news story that my name is involved from 2006 and when my name is entered into a search box it comes right up. I have moved away and landed a wonderful job.
Today someone from work searched my name and it came up.....this will destroy me if the owners of the company get a lead on this.....please help.

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Comment from drew on 2009-10-16

2009-10-16T16:30:48Z

@Ginger...i tried that link to http://www.cleanmy.name/ you gave and it mentions GoogleNameCleaner on the homepage. do you know if it's the same service?

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Comment from Ginger on 2009-10-16

2009-10-16T14:40:01Z

My loser ex-boyfriend wrote some bad stuff about me after I dumped him. When I googled my name, all these stupid lies about me on the blogs he made came up. Well I wanted to delete my name from Google so I went to http://www.cleanmy.name I had to spend money because of that idiot but thankfully the cleanmy.name guys were successful

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Comment from Athena on 2009-10-15

2009-10-15T20:11:31Z

I agree with what Joanne posted above. I've had great experience with Zallas Technologies and I can certainly vouch that they have their stuff together. They aren't really expensive, their prices are actually fair. Results can be seen in a few weeks up to 6 months.

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Comment from Candice on 2009-10-15

2009-10-15T18:26:18Z

I was checking-out some of the earlier comments. I read that mike mentioned www.cleanmy.name which i used. since he hasn't used this service, i would like him to know that it is not only inexpensive but also effective. The package I took was the $49/mo.

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Comment from Harry on 2009-10-15

2009-10-15T17:15:22Z

I agree with what Joanne said, I also used the http://Reputation-Technologies.com and I would strongly recommend them. Like what Leo said, there really is no answer to removing your name from google. But the next best thing is to at least get the negative stuff about you off the first search results page of Google and into the succeeding pages where it they will be less noticeable. This is what http://Reputation-Technologies.com did for me so I'm pretty sure they can help you guys out too.

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Comment from Elmer on 2009-05-11

2009-05-11T16:26:17Z

Jennifer, reputation Engineer is a ripoff and you might be fraud too - how could they have done what you are saying they have done if they only registered their website 6 days ago?! LOL and their website just sucks...

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/reputationengineer.com

Do your homework people!

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Comment from Jennifer Haley on 2009-05-11

2009-05-11T08:57:43Z

I have been researching with all of the companies that have been in the business of cleaning names on search engines but only one of them had really removed my name from the SE's and my negative link was published at ROR(rip-of-report) and many I have contacted and hired but only http://www.reputationengineer.com/ removed it and cleared my name within the first 2 months of the 6 months contract. And had a clear profile online with applying with companies have been a breeze with no problems.

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Comment from Jay on 2009-05-05

2009-05-05T16:11:23Z

Depending on the size of the site, the site owner can remove individual links or entries from many of the search engines. I have a site that I did not want showing up in the search engines. As the site owner, it was very easy to have Google remove all links to it. They were gone in three days time and it was all automated. If the site is small enough, you might be able to get them to make a similar request for entries with your information - chances are they wont, but you could always give it a try. Not all of the search sites are as helpful, and your best hopes would be for removal from the biggest few.

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Comment from Mike on 2009-04-24

2009-04-24T18:30:15Z

And how is this related? :)

We're talking about removing a name from Google... If you have a phone number listed all over, and you don't want it listed, contact the owner of the site to remove it. If they don't do it, use www.reputation-technologies.com and they'll get it off first 5-10 pages at least.

Getting it off the first 5-10 pages is not the same as getting it removed.

- Leo
25-Apr-2009

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Comment from Graham Peters on 2009-04-22

2009-04-22T13:24:27Z

On a related matter: it's a good move, when the phone company gives you a 'new' telephone number, to google it and see if it's secondhand. I was getting lots of calls from catering companies and soon found out that my number had once been used by a visitor centre up the road, and was listed in various online business directories!

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Comment from Alan on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T16:31:06Z

Legal is not the way to go here... Even if you get a court order to take the negative info down, which is very unlikely, it is still not guaranteed that you'd get the negative link off of google... although I guess you could take the same court order to google then and see if they remove it.

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Comment from Mike on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T16:28:48Z

Leo is right (I assume that was an answer from Leo). I work with quite a few law firms and requests pile in quite often - people want to sue teen agers for posting bad info about their kids on myspace, obviously classic ripoffreport and scam.com examples... Legally, these problems get nowhere... And by the way, which attorney is it that you're speaking of that charges a few hundred? :) At minimum, this problem will cost you $250/hr. and might take weeks if not months to negotiate... We're talking about thousands and tens of thousands in legal fees. So, I'd say the three websites you could review for alternative ways to help with this problem are: www.reputation-technologies.com, www.zallas.com and www.cleanmy.name , last one being quite inexpensive, but I haven't tried it, so can't say if it works.

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Comment from Simon on 2009-04-06

2009-04-07T05:09:04Z

What if you have an attorney contact the owner of the site? Would they remove it before I spend a few hundred for legal fees?

Depends on the site, and their own responsiveness. Probably depends on whether or not they're even in this country and bound by our laws. And let's face it, even here they may have every right to leave up what has been posted whether you like it or now. There's no clear answer here.

- Leo
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Comment from David on 2009-04-06

2009-04-07T05:07:35Z

Yes, I signed with zallas.com and they are a bit more expensive then Reputation-Technologies.com folks, but they know what they are doing... Not suggesting that Reputation-Technologies don't know what they are doing, but zallas just have their stuff together when I talked to them. Will see how it works though; so far the negative link is only off to page 2.

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Comment from Joanne on 2009-04-06

2009-04-07T05:03:32Z

Reputation-Technologies.com worked and only took 3 weeks! It was fairly inexpensive, after I called the rest of these companies and when I google my name now, the negative results are pushed back to page 3. Good luck!

Note that "page 3" is not the same as "removed". Your potential employers, friends, contacts can still find this information. If page 3 or even page 30 is good enough for you, so be it, but it is not being removed, only buried where it can still be found.

- Leo
07-Apr-2009

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Comment from Mike on 2009-03-31

2009-03-31T21:31:21Z

I had my name on a few websites and they refused to remove it. I tried legal action and nothing worked. Supposedly freedom of speech isn't always a good thing working in favor of good people :)

Nevertheless, there are a few companies that I found that deal with this problem: first is www.reputation-technologies.com - these guys are dedicated to this online reputation business thing, and since it's their bread and butter, I'm guessing they are pretty good at it. Haven't tried them though... Second, www.cleanmy.name - besides a cool name, these guys are pretty cheap and have a few packages from $49/mo. Last, but not least is the company I actually went with and they did a really great job. They are on a more expensive side and they are really a technology company and this service is just one of the departments they have, but I thought I'd share: www.zallas.com is their website. Tell them Mike at 323 referred you, - maybe you'll get some sort of discount ;)

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Comment from Mark on 2009-03-26

2009-03-27T04:38:09Z

To remove my name from the first 3 pages of Google, I used Reputation-Technologies.com (http://www.reputation-technologies.com) and it works well, but takes quite a while... took 2 months for me, to be exact. I've tried doing it myself, and I guess, I could do it, if I had 3-4 hours to dedicate to this burden for 2 months straight, but I just don't. So the way I look at it, it was worth a few thousand to make sure it's off first 3 pages and I don't get harrassed about it ever now. Good luck with yours!

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Comment from ralph on 2009-03-08

2009-03-08T17:12:37Z

Friggin' internet. Bringing us closer together, huh? How about it destroying people's lives.

Like so many technologies we accept without question, it can be used or misused, for good or for bad.

- Leo
09-Mar-2009

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Comment from Me on 2008-12-20

2008-12-20T12:11:36Z

I have a poblem with my name search on googel, one day i was just looking and searching my self and my name came up as that i have a sex video on that website and wen i contacted the webmaster he saids there is nothing he can do as someone must have searched for me on that website for a few time now is just registerd there and he cant remove it please help me as i dont want people to search for me and my name coiming up on some sort of porn website

Please read the article you just commented on.

- Leo
20-Dec-2008

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Comment from cyndi on 2008-12-02

2008-12-03T00:19:09Z

The only sane way to stay anonymous is to create a secondary screen name and/or email for internet posting purposes only. Keep your professional email/screen name for business purposes only. This way you won't get criticized or slandered for posting what you want!

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Comment from Jason Stanton on 2008-11-15

2008-11-16T04:40:54Z

Jason Stanton, ha? Well, CyberFootprints didn't work at the end... and I'm not sure if posting ficticious feedback really speaks too well about you guys... Nobody sane, after having this problem, posts their name online like this. If you keep promoting fake articles like this, I'm going to see if you can help yourselves fix this issue. You couldn't help me, so I doubt you could help anyone.

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Comment from frank on 2008-10-15

2008-10-15T22:12:01Z

Dear Sir,

About a year ago I wanted to -google- my name within -Google-,-Yahoo-, MSN, Alta Vista, and others by typing it within the search windows because, after being interviewed by a legitimate news-reporter (it was about sports), they told me to search on the internet for the relative publication with my name on it; it was a leggitimate publication; later I was able to find it and it was O.K.: a few months later, by just -googling- again my name, -strange- headlines started popping out on the pages with my name showing, and by just clicking on these, -illegitimate- web sites would follow: now it's a 'huge' mess and I tried to have all of these pages removed, but then others started to come out!!! What am I supposed to do? How can I stop my name being used as a link to these -awful- web sites? Is it convenient to use the services available on line, or is it waisted money? Which ones would you suggest, and how was it possible to have my name within all of this? I noticed later that other people identities
were stolen for the same purpose (many of them) and are names that belong to various well known personalities among the financial world, CEO's, Politicians, etc., etc. ; Hope to find a way out!

Thanks for any help and Regards,

Frank

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Comment from Kevin on 2008-10-01

2008-10-01T16:39:45Z

Zallas does not have a refund policy. You will probably will not see your money. RemoveYourName.com is the only company that has a full guarantee. I have researched all of these companies. Good luck

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Comment from Keith on 2008-09-25

2008-09-25T16:59:18Z

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.

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Comment from Brett on 2008-09-23

2008-09-24T05:21:20Z

I talked with cyber foot prints too, they were professional, but they seemed expensive and I could tell they were more interested in bigger clients than me. I eventually decided to try Zallis too, and I am in the process still, its been months, I tried to get a refund but they want me to wait a few more months, so we'll see, not any change so far, ill keep everyone posted.

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Comment from Sally Sorenson on 2008-09-22

2008-09-23T01:25:02Z

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.

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Comment from Bent on 2008-08-21

2008-08-21T18:25:19Z

Ok... So, I went ahead and signed up with www.zallas.com and the problem is gone. finally, after wasting my time with RemoveYourName people, who clearly posted their ficticious testimonial here up above. come on... Actually, the process with folks at zallas didn't seem simple either, but it worked. it took a while, I started seeing some articles show up after about 2 weeks and about 30-45 days it's now done. we have a 6 month contract, so I'm not sure what's gonna happen now, and I hope this will not come back. so I'll keep everyone posted here. Thanks for all the input!

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Comment from Luke on 2008-07-20

2008-07-20T18:49:11Z

Regarding "Mike's" post - we just ran into this blog as it is #2 when doing a search for our company; Cyberfootprnts is a brand that we branched off of our current Search Engine Marketing Company's operations; we helped many existing SEO customers with the service of link removal and we asked them to write testimonials for our new brand which deals solely with these issues - this is where many of our testimonials came from.

We are currently #3 in Google results for the keyword "Google Link Removal" at the moment, so I think those results speak for themselves as to our capabilities. As far as how long the process takes, it is a long and expensive process no different than Search Engine Marketing for any business which can run in the thousands - but instead we are marketing good publicity and yes as Mike said it can take months, there are no shortcuts here, and we cater to businesses and a high profile individuals who want professional results and to whom the process and cost makes the most sense for.

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Comment from peter on 2008-06-19

2008-06-19T23:38:58Z

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

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Comment from Mike on 2008-04-30

2008-04-30T12:28:30Z

Make sure you do your research. I spoke with the CyberFootprints people. They say the process takes could take months. When you do a Whois search on them they have only been around for one month as of April 30th. The domain was registered on March 29th. "Jason's" post above is posted 4 days later. My spam radar is going off! Also, when you go to their site they have 9 "testimonials". If your process takes months and you have only existed for one month then how do you have 9 testimonials? Sounds weird to me.

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Comment from Jason Stanton on 2008-04-03

2008-04-04T02:14:15Z

I tried the Zallas company as well, they were way overpriced and not very responsive. Then I tried a company that I seen on the news Reputationdefender.com.... their package was fairly reasonable, tho i had a lot of issues trying to get content removed. I finally went to another company (Http://www.CyberFootprints.com) and although it cost a bit more than i originally wanted to spend they were able to remove the links.

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Comment from Todd meuir on 2007-12-02

2007-12-03T02:27:39Z

For those that truly want an end all to having their names removed from search engines all you have to do is contact a real hacker (lol I know one). Myself I actually get one hell of a joy out of seeing my name all over the web due to comments from some nasty skank bar whore. Lmao I used to put my own name on Girldontdatehim.com but now I am really a member and Im so happy. True player status lol

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Comment from Tim Reynolds on 2007-11-18

2007-11-18T15:17:54Z

I used this service - http://www.removeyourname.com/
They were the most affordable and professional service I found. They called me back within five minutes of my filling out their contact form. Zallas took over a week to call me back. By then my issue was already fixed by RemoveYourName.com. Good article

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Comment from Anthony on 2007-08-29

2007-08-29T16:51:29Z

I’ve tried the Google NAMEcleaner service above (http://www.zallas.com/remove-bad-search-engine-results-bad-press.html) and it successfully removed my company name from the first 17 pages or so (it’s changing almost daily…) from most of the search engines. Somehow, they all work similarly, but there are differences on ask.com for example… Basically, Leo, it pushes the results down so much, it’s just like removing the name from the search engines, so it kind of answers your question :). Sayonara

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-07-06

2007-07-06T17:20:24Z

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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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Comment from Tarin on 2007-07-05

2007-07-05T17:30:08Z

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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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-06-30

2007-06-30T19:39:38Z

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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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Comment from Tarin on 2007-06-29

2007-06-29T17:48:52Z

Please let me know if this helps and I'd like to see if you guys have more feedback in regards to this problem... maybe other tools you'll discover?! Meanwhile, www.zallas.com seems to be the best solution...

Tarin

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Comment from Tarin on 2007-06-29

2007-06-29T17:37:22Z

I am very surprised that you guys haven't found the answer to this one... It's actually quite easy to remove your name or bad articles about yourself from Google and other search engines. There is a service that does it here: http://www.zallas.com/remove-bad-search-engine-results-bad-press.html

What they simply do is create a dozen of "good" pages about you to burry the bad results further down the listings (2nd page, 3rd page, etc.)... I've recommended this service to 2 companies already and it has worked! They guarantee the result for a fixed fee.

Again, I'm really surprised that you guys think you don't have a way to remove your name from the 1st page...

Good luck!

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Comment from George Arauz on 2007-05-05

2007-05-05T20:23:55Z

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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Comment from phyllis apodaca on 2007-03-01

2007-03-01T23:47:56Z

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?

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-02-22

2007-02-22T23:32:19Z

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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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Comment from Tina Nebuloni on 2007-02-22

2007-02-22T22:23:03Z

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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