Google to exclude 'revenge porn' from internet searches

Search giant to issue forms for people to request removal of links to pictures and video of them as images 'serve only to degrade victims'

Google plans to exclude "revenge porn" from its internet searches in future, limiting the spread of unauthorised nude or sexually explicit photos and videos posted on websites by spurned ex-partners without the subject's consent.

Amit Singhal, a senior vice-president, announced in a post on the Google public policy blog on Friday that the company would soon issue online forms through which members of the public will be able to request that revenge porn content involving them no longer show up in Google searches. Links to such images will not be included in Google search results on that person, though they will remain online.