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How Does Optery's Google Search Results Scan Work?

When performing data broker removals, the two best tools for finding profiles that need to be removed are:

(a) the free Optery Exposure Report
and
(b) Searches for your name, email address, phone number, and home address using major search engines like Google and Bing.

Optery now automatically scans both Google and Bing (including DuckDuckGo) search results, and incorporates the resulting screenshots in your Optery Dashboard and Exposure Reports. This feature helps you, and us, find more exposed profile information that needs to be removed.

This is a new feature currently in Alpha. What this means is we are actively testing this new feature, working to improve its performance and the feature is a work in progress. Additionally, Optery reserves the right to discontinue this feature at any time, without notice and at our full discretion.

How Does It Work?



Name: Optery will search for your name in Google and Bing and will produce a screenshot of a result pages.

Email: Optery will search for your email in Google and Bing and will produce a screenshot of a result pages.

Phone: Optery will search for your phone number in Google and Bing and will produce a screenshot of the result pages.

Address: Optery will search for your address in Google and Bing and will produce a screenshot of the result pages.

Where Can I See The Results?



Click on the image thumbnails underneath where it says "SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS"

Google Search Results in Optery Dashboard



If your information has already been removed from a data broker, but the link and your personal info are still being displayed in Google's or Bing's cached results listings, you can have the information removed using their respective Outdated Content Removal tools.

Learn how Optery's Ultimate Plan removes outdated links to data brokers from both Google and Bing search results caches using their Outdated Content Removal Tools.

Updated on: 01/12/2024

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