Remove a Photo From Google Image Search

There are several reasons why you may want to remove a photo from the popular Google image search engine:

It’s porn
Someone has stolen your copyright photo/image and is displaying it on their site
You just don’t like the image showing up in Google
Photo shows child abuse
Photo or image of your hand written signature

So lets go through the five most common types of removal request:

1) It’s Porn

Google doesn’t allow you to remove pornographic images from the unfiltered main search results. You can request that they remove such content from the filtered (moderate or strict) results though.

You have two options:

Click “report offensive images” at the bottom of the search results page.

Use the Google removal tool, input the url and select “inappropriate content appears in our Safesearch filtered results”

Remember, this option in the tool only removes content from the Safesearch filtered results.

2) Someone Has Stolen Your Copyright work

I have already created a page that deals with copyright infringements and how to remove links from Google.

You need the DMCA Google page.

3) You Just Don’t Like The Image Showing up in Google

If you see an image that you just don’t like then your best bet is to contact the site owner and ask him/her to remove it from the website. Not just from the page, but from the whole site (removed from the server). You can then use Google’s removal tool to expedite the removal process. Always ask the site owner to remove the page and leave behind a 404 (page not found error), if they put a redirect in place you may have problems using the tool.

4) Abuse of Children

Here is the official Google page where you can report child abuse photos that appear in the search results:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=148666

5) Remove Image of Hand Written Signature

You need the page linked to below:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=image_of_handwritten_signature&hl=en

3 Responses to Remove a Photo From Google Image Search

Aliyah ahmed December 19, 2012 at 7:18 pm #

I would like this image to be removed as soon as possible necause it is a form of pornography and has been put on google images without my consent. Thank you

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amy March 22, 2013 at 7:05 am #

hai can u help me for remove my photo at google image…
when i search at google amymemey all my picture ar they..but i alreday delet my blogsopt account..
please help me soon as poseble..

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Thoufiq April 10, 2013 at 1:50 am #

Please remove this picture from google as it is publishing about my personel life. It may create any problem to me if the image is still there. Thank you

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