

We also don't want predictive or refinement features to unexpectedly shock or offend people. Even though these features and the content within them is automatically generated as with web results, how they're presented might be interpreted as having greater quality or credibility than web results. These policies apply to many of our search features. Learn how to make a Legal Removals Request. We also disclose certain details about legal removals from our Search results through our Transparency Report. When possible, we display a notification that results have been removed and report these removals to Lumen Database, a project run by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, which tracks online restrictions on speech. We scrutinize these requests to ensure that they're well-founded, and we frequently refuse to remove content when there's no clear basis in law. We delist pages on name queries, based on data-protection requests, under what’s commonly known as the “ Right to be Forgotten” in the EU. For example, we remove content that illegally glorifies the Nazi party from our German service, or that unlawfully insults religion from our Indian service. We also remove content from local versions of Google, consistent with local law, when we're notified that content is an issue. For example, we remove content if we receive valid notification under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We remove content or features from our Search results for legal reasons. Web results are web pages, images, videos, news content or other material that Google finds from across the web.Įxpand all Collapse all Child sexual abuse imagery or exploitation material These policies apply to content surfaced anywhere within Google Search, which includes web results. Overall content policies for Google Search Learn more about how we maximize access to information. In some cases, we may manually remove them. Our automated systems are designed not to surface content that violates our policies. We’ve carefully developed the content policies for Google Search listed below to balance the real concerns about such issues, alongside the need for a search engine to provide access to information. Given how Search encompasses trillions of web pages, images, videos and other content, the results might occasionally contain material that some find objectionable, offensive, or problematic.

These systems generate search results that provide useful and reliable responses to billions of searches we process each day.

Google uses automated systems to discover content from the web and other sources.
