How to Remove Personal Information From Bing: The Three Routes Microsoft Offers (2026)

Your address, your phone number or an old page about you shows up when someone types your name into Bing. Before looking for a button that removes it, it helps to know one thing: there is no such button. Microsoft offers three distinct routes, each built for a different situation, and picking the wrong one costs time. This guide walks through the three, based on what Microsoft's own pages and forms said when they were read on 7 October 2026.

The short answer

• Anyone, anywhere: use Microsoft's Report a Concern form and choose the Bing Search product. One of its categories is "Exposure of Sensitive Personal Information".
• Residents of Europe: use the separate Request to Block Bing Search Results in Europe form, which targets results that appear for searches on your name.
• In every case: ask the site that published the page to delete or edit it. Microsoft calls this your best option, and it is the only route that removes the information itself.

Why Bing matters even if you never use it

Bing's index feeds more than Bing. DuckDuckGo's help pages state that its traditional links are "largely" sourced from Bing, and its page on result removal is direct about the consequence: to remove a traditional link from DuckDuckGo, you "will need to submit your request directly to Bing first". Once Bing has verified the request, DuckDuckGo says the change is automatically reflected in its own results.

So one request to Bing can clean two search engines at once. The reverse does not hold: a removal obtained from Google leaves Bing untouched. If you have already gone through the Google removal process, the Bing request is a separate job.

What Microsoft promises, and what it does not

Microsoft's support page on reporting a concern to Bing sets expectations low on purpose. Three sentences from it are worth reading before you start:

• Reporting a concern "will not necessarily result in removal of a URL from search results".
• Bing limits removals "to a narrow set of circumstances and conditions", to avoid restricting access to relevant information.
• Bing "doesn't control the content that websites publish", and a removed URL "will continue to exist" until the webmaster takes it down.

The form itself repeats the idea: Bing does not own the websites it indexes, and a page taken out of the index may still be reachable directly by its address.

Route 1: the Report a Concern form

This is the general door, open to everyone. On the form, pick Bing Search as the product, then the type of concern. The list configured for Bing Search includes "Exposure of Sensitive Personal Information" and "Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery", alongside categories such as defamation, fraud, malware and copyright.

For a personal information report, expect to provide:

1. The URL of the page you are reporting.
2. The search terms that bring up the result.
3. Your country of residence, which Microsoft says helps it know which local laws to review.
4. A screenshot of the content. Accepted formats are .jpeg, .jpg, .pdf and .png, up to 15 MB.
5. A court order, if you have one. The field is marked "if any".

The form then asks a question that says a lot about how Microsoft reasons: did you report the content to the site where it was found? If yes, it asks what happened, with answers such as "The site refused to take my concern off their site" and "The site asked for payment to take my concern off the site". Contact the site before filling the form, and keep the reply. You will be asked about it.

Route 2: the European form

If you live in Europe, Microsoft runs a second form with its own logic. It rests on the 2014 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which, in Microsoft's wording, lets individuals ask search engines to block results for queries that include their name when those results are "inadequate, inaccurate, no longer relevant, or excessive".

The country list covers the EU member states and, among others, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the Isle of Man. The form has four parts:

1. Identity, residence and contact details, with documentation to verify them (jpg, png, docx or pdf). You can file for yourself or for someone you legally represent, and a minor may submit the form alone.
2. Your role in society: whether you are a public figure, or hold a role involving leadership, trust or safety (the form gives teacher, clergy, police and doctor as examples).
3. The exact URLs to block, one by one. A page of Bing search results does not count as a specific URL, and all URLs in one request must relate to the same topic.
4. Sworn statements and a signature.

Two details are easy to miss. First, this route blocks results for searches on a name, and you enter each spelling separately: Microsoft notes that a name with special characters such as é or ç is treated as different from the same name without them. Second, the form warns that when URLs are removed, Microsoft may provide details to the webmasters of those pages. The publisher may learn that a request was made.

Microsoft states that it must balance your privacy against the public interest in free expression, and that a request does not guarantee blocking. For a request repeated on the same pages, the form mentions a processing time of up to 30 days.

Route 3: the source page, which Microsoft tells you to try first

Microsoft's advice is blunt: "your best option is to contact the webmaster for the website that published the content and request that it be deleted or removed." It is also the only route with a lasting effect, since a page that no longer exists has nothing left to index.

For people-search and data broker sites, that means their own opt-out procedure. For a forum, a blog or a company site, it means a written request to the owner. Residents of the EU can base that request on Article 17 of the GDPR, the right to erasure.

Bing Webmaster Tools also contains a Content Removal tool. It sits behind a sign-in (the login page offers Microsoft, Google and Facebook accounts), and its documentation was not readable without signing in on the day this guide was written, so its exact conditions are best read on screen once you are logged in.

What a successful removal does not change

A removal from Bing changes what Bing shows, and in most cases what DuckDuckGo shows. It does not touch Google, which has its own process, and it does not touch the page. Anyone holding the direct link can still open it.

That is why the order matters: source first, then the search engines, then a check a few months later, because a data broker can republish a record it had removed. If your name surfaces in many places, treat this as one task inside a wider cleanup of your digital footprint.