How to Remove Your Name From Google Search Results

boost.inc removes or deindexes the specific results tied to your name from Google, Bing, and Yandex, including articles, mugshots, forum posts, images, and PDFs, usually within 0 to 24 hours, and we only need the URLs to start.

When someone searches your name, the first page of results is your reputation. A bad article, an old mugshot, a fake forum post, or an image you never wanted public does quiet damage every day it ranks. Clients search you before a call. Partners search you before a deal. Recruiters and journalists search you before they decide who you are. We take those results out of the picture, either by removing them at the source or by pulling them out of the search index so they stop surfacing under your name.

Most people do not know this kind of help exists, and the few who go looking end up digging through scattered, anonymous corners of the internet trying to figure out who is real and who will take their money and vanish. boost.inc is the straightforward alternative: one desk, a real team, clear pricing, and a single intake. You send the URLs, we tell you what is workable and what it costs, and we handle the rest. No forums to vet, no strangers to trust.

Key facts

Search deindexing is the process of keeping a web page online while removing it from a search engine's index, so the page no longer appears in results for a given query even though the page itself still exists.

Content removal is the process of taking a piece of content off the source site entirely, so the original page returns an error and any cached or indexed copy decays out of search over time.

What results can actually be removed from your name?

Most things that surface under your name can be addressed. We work on news articles, blog posts, mugshots and arrest-record pages, forum and message-board threads, images, and PDFs. We cover Google, Bing, and Yandex, because a name that is clean on one engine but exposed on another is not actually clean. People do not check just one search engine when they vet you, so we do not stop at one either.

The right move depends on the target. Some results are best removed at the source, where the page disappears completely. Others are best deindexed, where the page stays live but stops appearing in search for your name. Removal is stronger. Deindexing is faster and is often the only realistic path when the source site will not take a page down. We pick the route per result and tell you which one we are using and why.

A core trust point first: boost.inc never asks for your password or login credentials, and we never need access to your accounts. There is no scenario where we request your email password, your social logins, or admin access to any platform. The work is handled through our internal relationships and reps. The only thing we ask you for is the URLs.

How does boost.inc remove your name from Google?

Step 1: Send us the URLs

You send the links to every result you want addressed: the article, the mugshot page, the forum thread, the image, the PDF. That is the entire intake. Start a request and paste the URLs. Search your own name first and list every result that bothers you, including syndicated copies on other sites, because each copy is a separate target and one overlooked republish can keep your name in search.

Step 2: We assess and confirm the route

We review each source, the format, and how widely the content has spread. Then we tell you, per result, whether the case is workable, whether we are removing at the source or deindexing, the realistic timeline, and the confirmed price. We do not start work you have not approved, and we do not promise outcomes we cannot deliver. If a specific result is genuinely not workable, we say so up front rather than take it and stall.

Step 3: We execute and monitor

We run the removal or deindexing through our reps and relationships. Most results clear inside 0 to 24 hours. Heavily syndicated stories take longer because each copy is handled individually. After a result lands, we monitor it, because a deindexed page can in theory be resubmitted and a syndicated story can resurface from a copy nobody flagged. Monitoring is how a clean search profile stays clean. See the full scope on our reputation and services pages.

Why use internal relationships instead of doing this alone?

The honest reason most people cannot clear their own name is access. A negative article, a mugshot page, or a forum post lives on a site you do not own and cannot edit. Getting it down means reaching a publisher, a platform, or an operator who has no obligation to help you and a clear incentive to keep the traffic. That is the wall the do-it-yourself route hits, and it is where our internal relationships do the work that a form cannot.

This is access plus process, not a trick. We reach outcomes that are difficult or effectively impossible to get alone: a takedown at the source, a deindexing that holds, a result pulled across all three engines. We do not promise the impossible, and we will tell you when a case is a long shot. But we get results the DIY path rarely can, and we do it without ever touching your accounts. We never need your password, because nothing about this runs through your logins.

How long does the do-it-yourself route take?

The DIY path can work. It is also slow, narrow, and unpredictable, and it helps to be honest about exactly where the uncertainty lives.

Google documents its own tools clearly. If you own the site hosting a page, Google's Search Central documentation explains how to remove your own page from search and how to ask Google to recrawl and refresh its cache after the page is gone (Google Search Central). That route is documented and reliable, but it only applies to pages you control. An article on a news site, a mugshot on a publisher site, or a post in someone else's forum is not a page you control, so this path does not apply to most name-in-search problems.

For content you do not own, Google documents a "Remove information from Google" flow for personal information and a set of legal request forms (Google Search Help). Here is the honest split. Google documents that these forms exist and that it reviews each request. What Google does not document, and what is genuinely uncertain when you attempt it alone, is whether your specific request will be approved, how long the review will take, and whether an approval removes the result everywhere or only narrows where it appears. In practice, outcomes here are unpredictable: many requests are declined, timelines stretch from days to months, and a partial removal can still leave your name surfacing on other queries.

There is also the part Google does not handle at all. Google's removal tools affect Google. They do not take the content off the source website, and they do nothing for Bing or Yandex (Google Search Help covers only pages you host yourself). To get a result taken down at the source, you are negotiating directly with a publisher or platform, which is exactly where most DIY attempts stall for good.

The contrast is straightforward. The documented DIY route is free, slow, limited to Google, and uncertain on outcome. Our route turns most cases in 0 to 24 hours, covers Google, Bing, and Yandex, addresses the source and the index, and we tell you whether each result is workable before you spend a dollar. See recovery for adjacent account work.

Who is this for?

This is for founders and operators at AI and tech startups who cannot afford a damaging result when investors, recruits, and customers search their name. It is for creators and influencers whose name is the business and whose brand deals run on a clean search profile. It is for public figures and executives who get judged in the first ten seconds of a search. It is for the small business owner whose own name, not just the company, is the brand, and who cannot let one old story define them. And it is for anyone carrying an outdated, inaccurate, or retaliatory result, an old mugshot from a matter long resolved, a fake post from someone with a grudge, that no longer reflects who they are.

What should you prepare before you start?

Almost nothing, which is the point. You need the URLs. Search your name on Google, Bing, and Yandex and copy the link to every result you want addressed, including images and any syndicated copies, so we can scope the full footprint instead of clearing one link and leaving three. If a result involves your own personal data or a legal angle, mention it, because that can open faster paths. You do not prepare logins, inbox screenshots, or account access, because we never ask for those.

What are the risks of doing it yourself?

Beyond the time cost, the biggest DIY risk is making a result more visible. Public complaints, takedown threats posted in the open, or clumsy legal letters can draw attention to a story that was quietly fading, a dynamic worth respecting. Filing the wrong form can also burn your best shot, since a declined request can make a later approach harder. And the deepest risk is simply that you spend weeks on Google's forms, get a partial or declined result, and your name is still surfacing the same content, still on Bing and Yandex, and still on the source site. We see that exact outcome constantly, and it is usually what brings people to us in the first place.

Clean your name in search

Send us the URLs and we will tell you, honestly, whether we can take each result off your name and how fast. There is no password, no login, and no account access involved, ever. Create your account at boost.inc/account?mode=register to open a request, and we will assess the case and confirm the route, timeline, and quote before any work begins.