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"Results about you" — what Google catches, and what it misses
Google shipped a tool called Results about you that flags search results exposing your personal info. It's genuinely useful. It's also nowhere near enough. Here's the honest breakdown.
What Google catches
- • Your name paired with a phone number
- • Your name paired with a home or email address
- • Pages on data-broker sites that expose contact info
- • Direct removal requests from Google Search
What Google misses
- • Old social profiles under usernames you've forgotten
- • Photos, tagged shots, and image-search surprises
- • Follower ratios that scream "bot" or "purchased"
- • Deleted posts still cached in the Wayback Machine
- • Reddit comments from your teenage years
- • GitHub commits with a leaked personal email
- • Pages that only rank on page 2+ (Google's tool ignores these)
How to use both tools together
- Start with Google's official tool at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you — free, official, best for contact-info scrubs.
- Run a Stalk Yourself scan for the rest: profiles, photos, old usernames, follower analysis, Wayback captures. Everything gets a risk score and a direct removal link.
- Re-run monthly. New results appear about you all the time — old ones you thought you deleted often come back through archives and mirrors.
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