When I search for my name, the results contain content that I find offensive. Can I have it removed from Yahoo!'s index?
Last Updated: July 30, 2007
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The Yahoo! Web Search database reflects the content of the Internet and is built from billions of documents on web sites around the world. The search results you see are links to content that has originally been published elsewhere.

If a web site has published your personal information or incorrect information about you, you should contact the site owner or site content provider to get that information corrected. Yahoo! does not control and is not responsible for such content. After the site has removed or corrected the published content, the information in the search database is corrected by our normal content refresh processes. You might still see the pages listed in our databases for some time after the site content or control documents are changed. The changes take effect in our search database when the information is updated in our next refresh cycle.

Note: Often, personal names are not unique, and multiple people have the same name. Pages containing content about a different person with the same name might not be subject to suppression.

Note: When providing personal data to a web site, be sure to check the site's privacy policy. In some cases, your submission to a site grants them permission to publish that information.

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