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Bug allows removal of any website from Google search

posted onJuly 20, 2011
by l33tdawg

A British blogger stumbled across a way to remove any website from Google's search results, even if that site has nothing to do with you whatsoever.

James Breckenridge of Romsey, Kent, wrote that he was just noodling about with Google's Webmaster Tools and built a Chrome extension to remove his unwanted URLs more quickly. Then, he said, "I made a little mistake and accidentally removed a URL of a website I have no relation to?!? I was stunned it could be that easy. Surely there was no way Google would actually remove the page, right?"

Digging a little deeper he found that he could remove any site he fancied from Google's results. He posted a how-to on his now-pretty-well-read blog, in an attempt he said to bring the problem to Google's attention.

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