HELP! Deleted site and it's still showing on Google

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  caseymfares · Member · May 15, 2015 at 4:50 pm

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  Hello,
  Yesterday I deleted my site and the deleted site is showing on Google. How do I remove? I do not want a deleted/inactive site showing.
  Link that shows on Google: https://caseyfaresevents.wordpress.com/about/
  Thanks,
  Casey Fares

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  timethief · Member · May 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm

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  https://caseyfaresevents.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.

  You cannot delete that message. Deleting blogs or blog content does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found) error message see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

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  caseymfares · Member · May 15, 2015 at 5:24 pm

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  Thank you for your reply. I had the site up only as a test and now Google is showing it as the primary site for my business. The site was up and down in the same day, so Google Webmaster tool was never used (or verified).

  Since it doesn’t show a 404 error (instead is say’s “caseyfaresevents.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.”) … how/when will it be removed?