Search engines like Google and Bing crawl public content across the internet. If your account was public in the past, or you've had any images hosted, a search engine may have found and indexed them.
For more on how content and privacy relate, see our Groupsy by Photobucket Terms of Use.
Deleted images or accounts still showing up in search
If you deleted an image from your Groupsy account and then searched for it, you may still see the thumbnail or a description in Google or Bing search results. Clicking through will show it's no longer available on Groupsy.
The same can happen if you've deleted your Groupsy account entirely. All of your account's contents, including image titles, are removed from Groupsy, but search engines can take several weeks or months to catch up and remove them from their own index.
You can speed this up by submitting a removal request directly to the search engine.
Requesting removal from search engines
- Google - https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6349986
- Bing - https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/content-removal-cb6c294d
You'll need the URL of the deleted image as it appeared in search results. Copy this directly from the search engine, not from Groupsy. It will look something like one of these formats:
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 Groupsy by Photobucket account, you can recover it here.