@Preetha For this specific problem, I need your advice. How can i get pictures off google images that have been past profile pictures on my account that shouldnt show anymore? And when i erase attachments from questions they still appear on google image search. Why?

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thomaster · Answer

No.
Once you put something on the internet, it will stay there forever.

Your profile picture has been saved by Google, and it's not likely that it will be removed anytime soon.
About the attachments, you cannot delete those. You can only remove the link to it, but the attachment itself will not be deleted. So if someone saved the link before you removed it, they'd still be able to access your attachment.

anonymous · Answer

Internet is like a black hole, it will consume everything muahahah!

elisaneedshelp · Answer

No, becuz not everything is online, only certain things, Why cant those go away like the others that did?

elisaneedshelp · Answer

its just do weird that most of the profile pics went away but a few stayed

elisaneedshelp · Answer

so*

mr_perfection_xd · Answer

ur profiles appear on google image search? so cool!! how? :o

elisaneedshelp · Answer

It depends, mine was a really easy search cuz no1 else is gonna have elisaneedshelp for anything

thomaster · Answer

Everything on OpenStudy is online.
They appear on Google because the link to an attachment contains the username of the one who posted it. If you type thomaster site:openstudy.com you'll find a lot of my attachments too. That works for every user. Main point is to stay careful what you put on the internet, since you will not be able to get it off. As I said before you can delete a link to something but you can't delete that something, so it will stay on the internet forever.

If you have something that needs to be removed urgently, you can ask an admin. They are able to manually delete content from the site server, but they only do this if it's really necessary. This will not remove it from Google images though. That may take a while as Google caches everything and only re-checks if the source still exists once in a while.

elisaneedshelp · Answer

By contacting an admin, Do you mean emailing contact@openstudy.com? Because they have never helped me when they actually do reply :/ I guess it depends for how long the picture stayed on openstudy and then it stays on google :/

thomaster · Answer

It will stay on google until google noticed that the source picture is removed.
Since pictures aren't removed from OS, they will remain available on Google.
You can email contact@openstudy.com about removing pictures from the server, but again they will only do this if it's absolutely necessary, like explicit pictures and inappropriate stuff. If you posted pictures that could serve as evidence for cheating, then that's your problem, they won't delete that stuff.

preetha · Answer

Thomaster is right! As usual.