Post removal

[Dee Woffaz]

Hi can anyone tell me how I can remove a post that I replied to? Stupidly I answered a post giving my telephone number as contact details when someone wanted to borrow something. The post appears in search engines on the internet. I tried to edit the post & asked the moderators to delete the post but it is still available to search. My fault I know, however does anyone know how I can delete it?

[Ginster]

If you go back to it you should have an option underneath your message saying "edit post"

I just checked one I had put and the option was there.

[Huguenot]

Dee, if you have edited the post to take your number out, but it is still appearing in Google Search results, then you are seeing a version of the page that has been 'cached' (stored) by Google.

This is outside the control of the forum - you would need to contact Google directly. That might be quite a challenge.

If you leave it then Google will most likely eventually update their cache anyway.

[LauraLou]

Hi,

I know this is an old post, but you can ask Google to remove certain content using the links here:

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061?hl=en#ts=2889054,2889060

Just pop in the url of the content you want removed.