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How can I remove my full name as a top search suggestion?
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)
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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ATM most links popping up in bing results are outdated (even though I used the removal tool uncountable times already).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
I have an important question, because I opened this form and I would not want other users to think that this is development, or the same form you intend to fill out for other browsers?
Now I have analyzed it and I do not recommend such a step, because removing only the name not associated with specific offensive content , really does not make sense - unfortunately.
I ask others to comment and join such a fundamental discussion.
Hi ,nollie
Thank you for your answer, I have never analyzed it in detail, but it is an interesting topic that every user can encounter!
The possibility of being forgotten seems like a very complicated task - additional AI integration, it may simply not be feasible, but if you find an extension please publish it will be helpful for everyone!
Best regards