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Short answer for : there is no Google setting that will hide your site only for a single search phrase. As and suggested, you cannot selectively “blacklist” a query from Google; ’s SafeSearch note is a useful exception but only applies to explicit-content filtering and not to arbitrary terms.

If the goal is to stop specific pages (or files) from appearing in search results, take actions at the page/URL level rather than by query. Common, effective options:

  • Edit or remove the offending content or change titles/anchor text so the phrase is no longer meaningfully present.
  • Add a meta robots noindex tag to the page so Google will drop it after the next crawl:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
  • For non-HTML assets (PDFs, images) send an X-Robots-Tag response header:
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
  • Return HTTP 404/410 for removed URLs, or require authentication (password-protect) so search engines cannot access the content.

Use Search Console’s Removals tool only for temporary/urgent removal; to make removals permanent combine the above methods so Google has no reason to re-index the URL. Note: blocking via robots.txt prevents crawling but does not reliably prevent a URL from appearing in results if other sites link to it — prefer noindex/410/password protection when you need guaranteed removal.

For authoritative implementation details and the caveats above, see Google’s guidance on blocking pages from indexing: Block pages from indexing (Google Search Central).

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Member Avatar for stymiee

No. They do not offer any tools for this no matter how you mean it.

If you don't want someone using your computer to search google for a certain term you need to buy parental control software.

If you don't want google to rank your site for certain search terms you can't. It's either all or nothing. You cn block them completely or let them rank you for everything they think they should rank you for.

You really should post a follow up to your questions as it is hard to tell exactly what you mean.

Member Avatar for Candy_ME

I dont think so my friend....

Member Avatar for Dani

There is Google SafeSearch which will filter out X rated sites from the search results automatically, regardless of what's searched for.

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