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How to remove deleted images that still appear in Bing via TSE cache?
Hello,
I am looking for help regarding images that were already removed from the original websites months ago, but they are still appearing in Bing search results.
I tried to request removal through the Bing Webmaster Tools, but I encountered the following message:
“We can only remove content if we have the URLs for the Source Page and matching Source Image where the content resides. We cannot remove content if we are provided with URLs containing www.bing.com or http://tse because these pertain to search results and are not the original location where the image resides. If this is what you are coming up with for the source image URL, you will need to go to your original query that brought up the image to find the correct source image URL.”
The problem is that I no longer have the original URLs of those images because they were deleted from the source websites months ago. The only URLs that still exist are Bing “tse” cached image links. The images themselves appear to be indexed and served directly through Bing, even though the original content no longer exists.
These images were removed a long time ago from the original pages, but they are still accessible through Bing search results. I am not sure what else I can do at this point.
Is there any email address for Microsoft support that I can contact directly? Or is there another process for removing images that are no longer hosted on the original websites but are still indexed or cached by Bing?
It is very important for me that these images are fully removed, as I do not want them to remain publicly accessible in search results.
Thank you for any guidance.