You control the search privacy of your profile and every unclaimed profile you have added to Geni (NOTE: This means that as soon as someone joins Geni, they now control their search privacy).
You can control search privacy with the following settings:
We allow Google to index our public search index. This means that if a profile is included in our public search results, it may also appear in Google search results.
We do not control if or when Google may index our search results, so your results may not appear in Google even though they appear in our search index. Your results may also continue to appear in Google search results after they have been removed from ours. They should disappear from Google results next time Google indexes our search results.
Google results include a link to a profile. What you will see when you click on that link will vary depending on your permission to view that link. For example, if the link is for a profile you have added, you may see the entire profile, while someone else clicking the same link may see a limited profile.
Please make sure you have not only logged out but also cleared your cookies before viewing that same link again. If updated correctly, no information should show and your names would read as "Private User" and "Minor" where applicable.
Also, we recently made a change that if you are not publicly listed, only the profiles which are marked Public (in your tree) or those who have claimed their account and enabled search (via their Permissions settings) will have their names displayed publicly.
Hi Monica,
I am having the same problem with one of my family members. He does not have an account on Geni and I am listed as the admin, but I can't find where I can adjust account settings on his profile. I can see how I can adjust privacy settings on my personal profile, but although I have made some changes to his, he is still showing up on search results and his family connections are still showing in the listing. He does not want anything to show up in Google search results or anyone outside our family, and I just can't seem to find the fix. Can you provide some more guidance on how to control search privacy of unclaimed profiles I've added to Geni?
Briana, all private profiles should not be indexed by Google, and all living profiles should be private. My guess would be that Google is not indexing his profile, but another family member, which happens to list that person's name as a relative. Would that be the case? If the profile being indexed by Google is public, then you could make it private. If it is another Geni member, then they could turn off that indexing for their profile. It's difficult to look at it without knowing who you're talking about. Feel free to send me a private message: Jeff Gentes
