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How to remove an unflattering photo of a client from google search

when my client does a google search on her name, the first picture is very unflattering. She is a professional woman, so I can't give out her name. I contacted the company that owns the 2 websites that the photo is on and they have gladly replaced the photo with one that my client has provided.

But when she does a google search the unflattering picture still shows up. I went to each of the two websites and the pictures have been changed.

I have reported the picture to google asking that it be removed.

It has been over a week and the unflattering picture is still showing up in a google search.

How can I help my client get rid of this photo? Do I have to contact the two websites and ask them to purge their cache? Or is there something else that we can do?

thanks in advance!

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I have checked and the picture is still showing up in a search but not on the websites. How do I tell the webmaster to clear his caches?

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yeah this is definitely a tricky one. I tried cleaning out my browser's cache and only succeeded in wiping out my history.

I am trying to post more pictures of her so that maybe they will push the one out of the top 10.

Any suggestions there?

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Thank you all for the information. The photo is gone, finally! and it with your help that I was able to accomplish this!