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Content not in Google's index but DMCA notice persists in search results
I'd like some help or guidance with the following perplexing scenario relating to Google search results and a DMCA notice: 1. In May 2024, about seven months ago, Google removed a URL from search for copyright infringement. The reported URL contained, among other content, mention of my name. A DMCA notice began appearing at the bottom of search results for my name, indicating that the infringing URL had been removed and linking to the complaint in the Lumen database. 2. About a month or two later, the webmaster, at my request, finally responded to repeated emails and removed all content on the infringing page, including my name. The URL is still live, but the page is essentially blank. 3. To this day, five or six months later, the DMCA notice still persists in search results associated with my name even though the URL should have been recrawled at some point during this time and the content should have been updated in Google's index. 4. When I input the URL into the Outdated Content Removal Tool, I get a message that says, "Outdated Content Not in Index." I have tried the Outdated Content Removal Tool half a dozen times and the message returned is always the same. Questions: 1. If my name hasn't appeared on the infringing page in 5-6 months, and the URL is not in the index, why does the DMCA notice continue to appear at the bottom of search results for my name? 2. How can I get the DMCA notice removed from search results associated with my name? 3. Is my only option to rescind the original copyright report from May 2024 and, if I do that, is there any risk that Google still has an old version of the page cached with the infringing content, even though it's been five or six months since the content was completely removed from the underlying page? Looking forward to some advice because I'm at a loss here. Thanks.1
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