🎉 Introducing AIQ — the new platform from Five Blocks that shows you exactly what AI says about your brand. Discover AIQ →

Is it possible to remove Google News results or only web results?

Quick answer

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 Standard Google web results have a wider set of channels - defamation, outdated content, RTBF in the EU and UK - but neither path is broadly available.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 an unpublish. Google itself does not adjudicate news content. For standard web results, additional pathways exist – defamation removal where a court order is in hand, outdated content removal where the page has been changed but Google’s cached version has not caught up, and Right to Be Forgotten in the EU and UK for individuals. Across both, the durable response is the same: factual response where it applies, authoritative competing content, and entity-layer work that reframes the brand in the source layer rather than fighting URL by URL on the SERP.

Last reviewed: 19/05/2026

Error: Contact form not found.

Skip to content