Free Name Scanner

If someone is harming you online, the first job is answering a simple question: what does Google say about me? That means finding everything that’s out there. The second is working out who to contact about each result and what to say. For most people, that means hours of searching and writing, or paying a law firm or PR firm they can’t afford.

Our free Name Scanner is launching soon to take that routine work off your hands. It runs a free online reputation scan of your own name, shows you the results most likely to hurt you, and drafts the removal requests for you to send. There’s no account and no billing: we cover the running costs ourselves, so nobody has to hire a law firm or PR firm just to find out where they’re being named online.

It isn’t available yet. This page explains what it will do, and how to get help in the meantime.

What the scanner will do

1. Confirm who you’re searching for. You confirm you’re searching for yourself, or for your child as their parent or guardian.
2. Tell it about you. You enter your name, spelling variants and any aliases. You can also add your city, school or employer, usernames and email address. These details help it filter out other people who share your name.
3. Run the scan. A scan takes about one to three minutes. The most serious results usually appear within about a minute, so you aren’t left waiting to see what matters most.
4. Review your report. The report shows the top 10 negative results, ranked by how serious they are and how likely they are to be about you.
5. Act on each result. Every result has four buttons: “Not me”, “Resolved”, “Draft removal request” and “Get expert help”.

If you share a name with someone who has a bad reputation, “Not me” clears their results from your report. Our guide on having the same name as someone with a bad reputation explains what else you can do.

How removal requests work

For each result, the scanner finds where to report it. That’s either a known reporting form on the platform or the site’s abuse contact.

It then drafts a letter from one of five templates:

• Copyright, for photos or writing of yours posted without permission.
• Intimate images, for private images shared without your consent.
• Personal information or doxxing, for your home address, phone number or other private details.
• Correction of inaccurate content, a polite request asking the site to fix something that’s wrong.
• Same-name clarification, asking a site to make clear that a result is about someone else.

You review the draft, edit it however you like, and send it yourself. Nothing goes out in your name without you sending it. Whether a site acts on a request depends on its own policies and the law that applies, so a well-written request improves your chances but can’t decide the outcome.

If you want to do this by hand today, our guides on removing personal information from Google and removing intimate images shared without consent walk through the same routes step by step.

Built to protect people, not expose them

A tool that searches for names could be misused to dig into other people. We’ve designed the scanner so that it can’t easily be used that way.

• Self-search only. You can search for yourself, or for your child if you’re their parent or guardian. It is not a people-search tool, and it’s not for looking up an ex, a coworker or a stranger.
• Safety screens first. People under 18, and anyone reporting intimate images, see a help screen before any results, with the right support routes.
• Support routes that fit. That includes the police, NCMEC’s Take It Down for images of minors, and StopNCII for adults. For people in Singapore, it also points to the Online Safety Commission. Our help and support resources list these services now.
• Your data stays on your device. Scan details, results and drafts are stored locally, not on our servers. Where AI ranks results or drafts a letter, we use providers that don’t store the data or train on it.
• Open source. We plan to publish the source code in a public repository, so anyone can check how it works.

What it won’t do

The scanner handles discovery and letter-writing. Some problems need people, and our team handles those through the free audit instead. The scanner won’t:

• Send legal letters or take anything to court.
• Identify who posted something.
• Push results down in search.

If a result needs one of these, the “Get expert help” button points you to our team. You can also read about our content removal service, which covers removal routes that go beyond a standard request.

What does Google say about me? How to check today

You don’t have to wait for the scanner to run a basic online reputation check. It takes about half an hour:

1. Use a private browser window and sign out, so Google doesn’t personalize the results.
2. Search each version of your name, in quotes, alone and with your city, employer or school.
3. Look past the first page. Check page two, plus the Images and News tabs.
4. Note every result that’s about you, with its link, and mark anything harmful, private or out of date.

That list is exactly what a free reputation scan will build for you once the scanner launches. Our guide on how to check your online reputation covers the manual version in more detail.

The scanner isn’t live yet, so if something is hurting you today, the free reputation audit is the way to get help now. We’ll look at what people see when they search for you and tell you honestly what can be done.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Name Scanner really free?

Yes. There’s no account to create and no billing. Marketing Agency SG funds it, including the AI costs of every scan, to help people who are being harmed online and can’t afford a law firm or PR firm to do the routine discovery and letter-writing for them.

What happens to my data?

Your scan details, results and drafts are stored on your own device, not on our servers. Where the scanner uses AI, we use providers that don’t store your information or use it for training.

When does the Name Scanner launch?

Soon. The scanner is in final testing. Until it launches, you can request a free reputation audit and our team will look at what’s online about you.

Can I scan someone else?

No. You can only search for yourself, or for your child as their parent or guardian. The scanner is not a people-search tool and isn’t designed for looking up anyone else.

Does the scanner remove results for me?

No. It finds where to report each result and drafts the request, but you review, edit and send it yourself. Each site decides whether to act based on its own policies and the law.