How To Remove An Image From Google Images

If you want an image removed from Google's search results, it's important to bear a couple of points in mind.

• Google doesn't own the web, and can't remove content from the web.
• The images in Google’s search results are controlled by the webmasters of the sites that hosts those images.

If you don't own the site on which the image appears, you should ask the webmaster to remove the image or block it from search engines. How to contact a webmaster.

Once the webmaster has removed the image URL from the webmaster’s site or blocked it from being included in our index, our search results will automatically reflect the change after we next crawl the site. You can expedite this process using the URL removal tool.

To use the URL removal tool, you’ll need to know the exact URL of the image you want removed. Here’s how to find it:

1. Click the image that you locate in the image search results.
2. Right-click See full size image or Full size, and copy the link address.
3. Paste the URL into a file or document, so it’s available when you use the URL removal tool.

Once you have the URL ready, follow the instructions for requesting removal of an entire page.

Watch this video to learn how to remove an undesirable image from Google Images search results.

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