How to prevent search engines from indexing my chess.com profile?

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User249681310

Any way to do it? I recently changed the name on my profile (And screen name) yet it still shows my old info indexed on search engines, even though when I click it, it leads to nowhere. Anyone know how to prevent this or know anyone that can help?

Thanks happy.png

notmtwain
User249681310 wrote:

Any way to do it? I recently changed the name on my profile (And screen name) yet it still shows my old info indexed on search engines, even though when I click it, it leads to nowhere. Anyone know how to prevent this or know anyone that can help?

Thanks

You can't. Why would that concern you? Possibly you are just seeing local results stored in your cache.

User249681310
notmtwain wrote:
User249681310 wrote:

Any way to do it? I recently changed the name on my profile (And screen name) yet it still shows my old info indexed on search engines, even though when I click it, it leads to nowhere. Anyone know how to prevent this or know anyone that can help?

Thanks

You can't. Why would that concern you? Possibly you are just seeing local results stored in your cache.

It's not just stuff in my cache lol, I haven't visited this site in at least a year and especially not on this browser. And also I'm an extremely privacy conscious person happy.png

Martin_Stahl

No, you can't change the indexed information. I mean, I guess you could contact each search engine and ask but I doubt they would do it unless required by law. Though eventually most of that will age out as they re-index. It may be possible to still find the old data, such as on the internet archive but for the most part your new information will take over.

User249681310
Martin_Stahl wrote:

No, you can't change the indexed information. I mean, I guess you could contact each search engine and ask but I doubt they would do it unless required by law. Though eventually most of that will age out as they re-index. It may be possible to still find the old data, such as on the internet archive but for the most part your new information will take over.

Thanks I appreciate it! grin.png

macer75
User249681310 wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:

No, you can't change the indexed information. I mean, I guess you could contact each search engine and ask but I doubt they would do it unless required by law. Though eventually most of that will age out as they re-index. It may be possible to still find the old data, such as on the internet archive but for the most part your new information will take over.

Thanks I appreciate it!

You're welcome!