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How can I get an out of date website to be removed from search engines?

I am working for a small branch of a Japanese company in Nevada. Last year, on their website, the Japanese Government published some very harmful information about the Japanese head office. Although the information is irrelevent to the operations being run in the US, Japanese people/speakers often find this information and assume that it is both current and relevent to the work that I am doing, thus causing unnecessary damage to the business. Under Data Protection laws, my understanding is that all data held, including that by public bodies, must be kept up to date and accurate or be removed if is not. The Japanese Government information is now highly inaccurate yet they have refused to update it despite numerous requests from head office. Japanese Law waives all responsibility for public bodies, so there is no legal requirement for them to do anything. As most major search engines are US based, would they be legally responsible to take down links to the inaccurate government pages?

Public Comments

1. You have to use the "Contact us" page on every search engine that turns up the unwanted site. Then ask them to remove it from the "Cashe" this will be done quite quickly, most of them ( google, yahoo , etc) update cashe's regularly...but send them a request to be sure. It is a pain, somewhat time consuming...but the only effective solution.
2. If you do not have access to the administration system for this site there is very little you can do. The search engines very rarely (if ever) interfere with their results. If they did they would be accused of manipulating the results and favouring one view over another. Regards, OurManInParis http://ourmaninparis.googlepages.com/webmarketing