pmcnamara
News Editor

Why Google won’t use an eraser

Opinion
Mar 4, 20091 min

Google’s Matt Cutts writes:

Every few weeks or so, someone contacts me and says “Hey Matt, there’s page out on the web about me that I really don’t like. Is there any way to remove it from Google’s index?” People don’t usually say it like that. More likely, they say “There’s this person making crazy claims about me on the web, and the stuff they say is just off-the-wall. Can Google remove this crazy person’s page?” Or “Everybody knows that this crazy person is posting lies and twisting people’s words. Is there anything you can do about it?”

The short answer is no. The longer answer is here.

My question: Are there exceptions? As in if the right person calls the right person?