If intimate images or videos of you appear in Google Search, including deepfakes or AI-generated “lookalike” content, Google can take them out of its results. It has long had a process for involuntary explicit imagery, and as the Take It Down Act came into force it added a newer, dedicated route built around that law.
What deindexing does
Removing a result from Google does one thing: it takes the URL out of Google’s search results. The page itself stays online wherever it is hosted. That still matters a great deal, because most people only reach this kind of content through search, so deindexing cuts off the way strangers find it. Treat it as fast relief that runs alongside getting the page removed at its source, not as a replacement for that.
Unlike a copyright request, this route does not depend on you owning the images. It is about consent: intimate content of you, shared without your permission.
Use Google’s Take It Down Act removal form
The current route is Google’s non-consensual intimate imagery removal form.
Open it and follow the prompts to identify yourself and the content. The form is built for exactly this situation, so it is straightforward to complete.
One limit shapes how you use it: you can submit up to 10 links per submission. Google says it will try to automatically detect and remove other copies, but we would not rely on that. Submit every URL you actually have, and simply run the form again as many times as you need to cover them all. Catching copies yourself is more reliable than hoping the automatic detection finds them.
After you submit
Within about 48 hours, Google sends you a letter with its decision on the links you submitted, telling you which it has removed. If some are rejected and you believe they qualify, you can resubmit with more detail.
Because this content tends to reappear at new addresses, keep your list of URLs and file again when copies surface. Deindexing is also one engine at a time, so if the content shows up on Bing or Yandex you file the equivalent request with each. And search removal works best alongside getting the page taken down at its host: our Reddit and Telegram guides cover platform takedowns, and the explainer on the Take It Down Act covers what the law requires.