Being a former Googler, one question I get asked a lot by my friends is “How can I get a page about me removed from Google?”

Almost always, my response is “don’t get published”.

Seriously. Google will make available any content that they know how to get to. “They” being the Googlebot, a tool that Google uses to find pages on the internet and make those pages available as a result when you search. So if you don’t want to be on Google, then simply don’t affect the world in a way that you would be notable at all.

Now that’s a sad lifestyle, when you really think about it. You should be happy to be in Google’s index! But if something about you is published, and that information makes its way online, and you really don’t want it to be there, you do have hope. You just have to get that information removed or have the author block Google from indexing that page. If you are nice enough about it, most webmasters will at least remove your name from the page(s) in question.  Then give it a few weeks for Google to re-index the page and you’ll be fine.