Search engines or indexes, such as Google, crawl through all public content on the internet.
If your account was public in the past, or you've had any images hosted, search engines may have found it and added it to their index.
For more information on the definition of content and how it relates to your privacy, see our Terms of Use.
Images or the Account have already been deleted, but are still showing after a search
If you deleted an image from your Photobucket account and then searched for it online, you may still see the thumbnail or information on search engines such as Google and Bing. However, if you click on the image, you'll find that it is no longer available on Photobucket.
The same may be true if you have already deleted your Photobucket account. This means all of your account contents will have been completely removed from the Photobucket platform, along with the titles of any images.
However, even though your images or account have been deleted on Photobucket, it may take several weeks or months before they are removed from search indexes.
You can attempt to expedite the removal process by submitting a request to the respective site.
Links to request the removal of information
- Google - https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6349986
- Bing - https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/bing-content-removal-tool-cb6c294d
Grab the URL for the image that was deleted. You'll need to copy this from the search where you saw the images. It should look something like the following:
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/username/XXXXX.jpg
https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/XXXX/username/album-name/XXXXXXXX.png
https://hosting.photobucket.com/e61accx8-ea48-4fcb-9eb2-b42b2c3aa553/1d356836-dd1b-4a76-ad93-cb45a0496317.jpg
If you do not have access to your Photobucket account, you can recover it here.