deleted media in wordpress still appears in google search

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  instituteofradicalimagination · Member · Nov 9, 2017 at 12:08 pm

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  I have uploaded by mistake a pdf document containing private informations that I don’t want to be available online. I deleted it from wordpress admin as media as I deleted the page where it was uploaded. Although, I can still get to it if I just type the name of my website instituteofradicalimagination.org in google. How can I remove that from the internet or create a 404 error page?

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  acesabe · Member · Nov 9, 2017 at 12:30 pm

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  Hi, I just tried Googling instituteofradicalimagination.org and did not get any results linking to any pdf file or any other sensitive personal information, you may be getting cached Google search results if you are signed into a Google account when searching. Try opening a private tab in Google Chrome (or any browser that supports it) and searching again to confirm whether you can still see this file or not.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Nov 9, 2017 at 8:09 pm

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  Hi there,

  What is the URL of the pdf that you deleted? I can nuke it on my end if it is still showing.

  Let me know, thanks!