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: How to invalidate Google Search results? Due to a misconfiguration all HTTPS traffic to a specific server showed the wrong content for a while. Google indexed this content including urls that

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Due to a misconfiguration all HTTPS traffic to a specific server showed the wrong content for a while.

Google indexed this content including urls that don't exist in the affected sites.

For example: site-a.tld/ and site-b.tld/ both showed content of site-c.tld/ including urls like site-a.tld/something-about-site-c
This problem has been resolved a month ago and invalid urls now give a 410 Gone http response. However Google will still show these invalid pages in their search result for site-a.tld or site-b.tld

Is their any way to get rid of this invalid search results?

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@Berumen354

From official documentation -> support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

If you have a web page that you just deleted but it is still showing up in your custom search results, and it is very important to you that it does not show up in search results as soon as possible; or if one of your web pages contains inappropriate content and you want to block it immediately while taking it down, you can prefix the URL with a "-" symbol, and submit it in the On-demand indexing using individual URLs section, like this:

-http://www.example.com/outdated.html



Further reading -> developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/indexing#on-demand-indexing

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