deleting site/expunged from search engines

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  alternativedesignsource · Member · May 31, 2018 at 6:07 am

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  My site was originally private and became public without my knowing. I have photos of private people on the site. Once I delete the site, how long will it take to expunged from search engines?

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  fstat · Staff · May 31, 2018 at 11:02 am

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  Hi there,

  It can take a few weeks for search engines to update their index and remove your site from their listings. You can read more about how this works here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  You can try to speed things up by requesting a site removal from all the major search engines. Here’s how to that for Google search results:

  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92865