Is it possible to remove Google News results or only web results?
Google News removal is mostly limited to source-level work with the publisher. Standard Google web results have a wider set of channels (defamation, outdated content, RTBF in the EU and UK), but neither path is broadly available.
Google News and Google web search use overlapping but distinct removal channels, and the available options are narrower than most clients expect. For Google News specifically, removal almost always runs through the publisher: a correction, an update, or in rare cases taking the story down. Google itself does not rule on news content. For standard web results, a few more routes exist: defamation removal when a court order is in hand, outdated-content removal when the page has changed but Google’s stored copy has not caught up, and the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF, the EU and UK right for individuals to have certain results removed from search) in the EU and UK. Across both, the durable response is the same: a factual reply where it applies, authoritative competing content, and work that reframes the brand by changing the sources the engines read, rather than fighting URL by URL on the Google results page.
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026