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How can I remove my full name as a top search suggestion?
"I came here to increase my chances of finding someone who can help me out with my issue."
Please note that the keyword suggestion feature (for you it's a problem) for others is a helpful feature!
Removing only your distinctive name is not feasible (it's a waste of time)
If someone wants to remove it using a script - it will be a scammer and beware of such solutions!
Good luck
Yes, the keyword suggestion feature is a given for search engines, but I just want my full name as a top search suggestion removed.
To be fair, trying to contact Bing’s support team doesn’t work because they’ll just tell you that it’s all part of some algorithm. So I was hoping to find someone who can actually help me here.
One solution I did try was searching similar sounding keywords as many times as possible, but I think that is a waste of time myself. I think if I can find someone who actually works for Microsoft/Bing’s support team here, it’d be the easiest solution as opposed to get automated messages.
Also, thanks for the tip of potential scammers. Because I got dealt with a scammer myself months ago.Thank you very much for this message, which should be a tip for other users:
"Yeah, I really kind of made this a bigger problem for myself then it should’ve been. I apologize if I have been stressing about this too much. Besides, I’ve been more of a Google user in my life compared to Bing and I’ve had much better success in removing things from that search engine (no offens..."
Thank you for your answer, now I understand better your concerns, , just your computer suggests the best suggestions, but they are personalized -> only for you as a user (certainly not for all who enter the first 2 letters will show your full name) I can assure you of this and reassure you.
When I type the same liters (Bing will show completely different keywords)
I'm glad you're in MTC - here users help or try to help.
Good luck.
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hello sorry to hop in again but I am also following this discussion.
I do believe the autosuggest in this case ( surely it is not in my case ) is not linked to one user.
I have tested to search my first name in Bing, duckduckgo, ecosia and yahoo search engines on personal laptop, work laptop, mobile phone.. on personal wifi, wifi at work, public wifi, 4g and with vpn enabled based in different countries + changed search settings in Bing to worldwide or specific countries that I am not living in nor have ever visited + tested on a fresh reinstall of windows 11 and searched in edge browser and ALL of the time my second name comes up as first/second suggestion after typing my first name.
The autosuggest function is and can be useful for many cases but this is not one of them. This is personal info and is only useful for ID theft / stalking. Which is why this is so important for me, as I had to deal with scammers already.
I am speaking for myself and can not speak for chunkypears but my full name has been removed almost everywhere possible on the internet and I will continue to remove it completely.ATM most links popping up in bing results are outdated (even though I used the removal tool uncountable times already). So again little use for autosuggest to show my second name.
In my opinion it is MY name and if I want it not to show up as a suggestion that should be my right period.Chunkypears if you live in Europe, there is a “right to be forgotten law” for Europeans so I am going to try this official request as well, also for the results that are still there even after been removed.
Request Form to Block Search Results in Europe
https://www.bing.com/webmaster/tools/eu-privacy-request
