How do I remove leaked content from Google Search?
Google can drop a page from its results, but as Google itself says, it can only remove content from search results pages. The page stays online until the site or its host takes it down. So there are two jobs: delisting at Google, and removal at the source.
Route 1: copyright
For your own photos and videos, use Google's copyright removal form. Give the specific URLs, not a site's home page. Know that Google shares qualifying requests with the public Lumen database and tries to notify the site owner, who can send a counter-notice. See who sees your name.
Route 2: explicit or intimate images of you
This form is based on being the person shown, not on owning the copyright. You or a representative can file. It covers:
- sexual images or video of you, including ones you once agreed to, but only if the content "isn't commercialized online or somewhere else"
- fake sexual or nude content of you, if you're identifiable and it was shared without your consent
- pages linking your name, alias or handle to porn sites or ads unrelated to you
- your non-sexual image on a porn site
That commercial condition matters for creators. If the content is on sale, this route may not fit and copyright is the natural one. Google also tries to find and remove duplicates of sexual images unless you opt out, and may remove a page fully or only for searches containing your name.
Route 3: the page is already gone
If content was deleted from a site but still comes up, use Google's remove outdated content tool. Google describes it for content that's been deleted, so it isn't the route while the leak is still live. I file these after a removal, since Google can keep showing a dead page for a while.
Delisting or removal at the source?
| Delisting at Google | Removal at the source | |
|---|---|---|
| Who acts | The site, or its host | |
| Result | Page stops appearing in the results covered | Page is gone, for everyone |
| What's left | Still reachable by link, on social media and on other search engines | Other copies, plus a stale result until Google catches up |
I file both, since each covers what the other misses.
Under 18, or the images were taken when you were under 18? Don't send them to anyone, me included. Take It Down, run by NCMEC, works from your own device: your file stays there and only a digital fingerprint is shared with participating platforms.
Google also says: don't take, keep or share screenshots of sexual content involving anyone under 18, and report it instead. Anyone can report it.
General information, not legal advice. I'm not a lawyer and Abolita is not a law firm. Checked against the linked sources on 6 November 2026, except Google's DMCA form, which wouldn't load beyond a heading for my check. Google's explicit-image page is what names it.
Quick answers
Does delisting from Google delete the page?
No. Google can only remove content from its search results pages. The page stays online, and may still be reached through links, social media or other search engines, until the site or its host takes it down.
I sell this content. Can I use Google's explicit-image form?
Google limits that route for consensual content to content that isn't commercialized online or elsewhere, so paid content may not qualify. The copyright form doesn't depend on that condition, if you own the rights.
Sources
- Google DMCA form (wouldn't load beyond a heading for my check)
- Google: report content for legal reasons
- Google: how copyright removals and Lumen work
- Google: remove explicit or intimate personal images
- Google: remove outdated content
- NCMEC: Take It Down
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