If you delete a thread will it make the Google image disappear?

[Pantone363]

I posted a thread a while back about my daughters forehead scar. The image is now one of the first on google if you search a fairly common phrase. Plus I keep getting PMs from people asking about

If I ask MN to delete the thread does it go off Google or is it there forever 😱

If the only place this picture exists is on MN, and MN deletes the thread and image I think it will eventually disappear from Google.

However, if it is currently a high ranked image, it may well have been picked up and used elsewhere, you can use a Google image search to check this.

You can also search a chunk of text from the thread to see if it has been archived by any other sites.

Hi Pantone,

Thanks for asking about this. It's pretty much as ItsAll has explained.

Google can take a little while to update its cache, but once it's crawled over our site again (usually a matter of days), you'll find that the deleted thread is no longer returned in your Google search results.

You can ask Google to delete it themselves - but this may well take just as long!