Google has announced new features in Search to help users keep control of their personal information, privacy, and online safety, which includes a new feature that alerts users when their private contact info appears online.
Last year, the tech giant launched the ‘Results about you’ tool to make it easy for users to request the removal of search results that contain their personal phone number, home address, or email, right from the Google app or however, they access Search.
Now, Google has significantly updated and improved the tool to help users keep track of their personal contact information in Search and alert them when it is found, so they can get it removed.
“In the coming days, we’ll be rolling out a new dashboard that will let you know if web results with your contact information are showing up on Search. Then, you can quickly request the removal of those results from Google — right in the tool,” the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
