How to get my photo off of a google search?

[Karey]

The other day my dad searched my full name into google. Nothing incriminating of course, just my facebook came up. But on the images an old MySpace photo was there (I deleted it a long time ago). It's nothing crazy, it's just me early in my teenage years looking silly wearing a tiara.

But for future employers, it seems embarrassing! I've already tried deleting the MySpace. Is there anything else I can do?

[Euxgles]

There are lots of 'people searching' sites that keep these old MySpace and Facebook photos in their archives.

My MySpace has been deleted for years and years now, but the latest picture I had as my primary photo can still be seen if you search for my screenname (I've since stopped using it, for the same reason as you).

Short of calling up each and every site that you find your pictures on, there's really nothing you can do about it.

[Garry]

I hope this helps http://lifehacker.com/5958801/how-to-com...eb-forever

[dewcoons]

Simple answer. You don't. Once it is on the Internet is there forever. It is impossible to remove it from the Internet.

Sites like Yahoo, Google, etc just do just give you links to web sites. They also cache every site that a person visited through them (that is they made a copy of it on their servers - Google has over a million in the US alone) and display that copy rather than the original page. This makes them faster then going to page directly.

When a page is deleted, it still remains in the cache of the Google, Yahoo and other servers. Eventually that page will be dropped if no one access it for a long enough time. But by doing a search for yourself that brought up the picture, you move it back to the top of the stack and restarted the timer before it will be dropped. That is why a "deleted" page or picture can hang around for months or even years.

The only way you would be able to get rid of the picture would be to contact MySpace (which has it cached) and each of the major web search engines (several hundred of them) and ask to have the cached page removed. If you miss one of them, the page will return (and return and return...)

So the practical answer is that there is no way to remove the picture. Anything posted on the Internet is there forever.