Google now alerts you if your contact info appears online

Back in September, Google launched a way to remove search results showing personal contact info--details like your home address, phone number, and email address. You could make the request from any method of accessing Google search, then monitor the status of your request(s) from its new Results About You tool. But you still had to stay on top of search results about you. Now the company has rolled out some updates to the tool to alleviate some of that work (and stress)--as well as introducing a further way to protect your privacy online. Promised to arrive in "the coming days," the Results About You's new dashboard will both show you existing search results containing your contact info and also automatically alert you if those personal details again pop up later on.