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Finding out that yourpersonal information has been posted onlinecan be quite jarring as well as scary.

Doing so lets Googles systems know to recrawl a particular page to obtain the latest information.

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How to enable Results About You

1.

Once inside your Google account,choose Data & Privacyon the top left.

Then scroll down past History configs andclick on My Activity.

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In the menu on the left side of the page, punch theOther activityoption.

Within Other Activity,scroll down to the Results about yousection which is toward the bottom of the page.

Thenclick on Manage results about you.

A screenshot showing how to find the My Activity option in the Data and Privacy section of your Google Account

From here,slide in your full name.

You then need toadd your personal contact infolike your home address, phone number and email.

it’s possible for you to also add multiple email addresses.

A screenshot showing how to find the Other Activity option in the My Activity section of your Google Account

And there you have it.

A screenshot showing where to find the Manage results about you option within the Other Activity section of your Google Account

A screenshot showing the main Results about you page in your Google Account

A screenshot showing the first step of enabling Results about you from within your Google Account

A screenshot showing the types of personal info you can have monitored by Google’s Results about you tool

A screenshot showing the final review of the personal info you want Google’s Results about you tool to monitor for

A screenshot showing that monitoring is enabled in Google’s Results about you tool

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