Part of our guide to personal reputation management — part of Understanding Your Google Results: What People Actually See When They Search Your Name. This page answers one specific question from that guide.

How do I check images and news results for my name?

From the Personal Reputation Management team · Last updated October 19, 2026

We’re still writing this guide — here’s what we have so far. The short answer below is ready to use today, and the outline shows exactly what the finished guide will cover. In the meantime, the completed guides in the Knowledge Center cover the foundations.

Short answer: Run your core name searches, then switch to the Images and News or Videos views with the same queries, and sort what you find the same way: mine, a namesake's, wrong, or a broker. Photos and clips are often older and less supervised than web results, so note anything outdated or misattributed with its address and date, and fix it at the source page rather than at the search engine.

What this guide will cover

This article is in our writing queue. The outline below is the exact scope it will cover — no more, no less — and the short answer above is the honest summary you can use today.

Image and news searches with name variants
Sorting visual results and spotting misattribution
Fixing a wrong photo or caption at its source

The short version you can act on now

Run your core name searches, then switch to the Images and News or Videos views with the same queries, and sort what you find the same way: mine, a namesake's, wrong, or a broker. Photos and clips are often older and less supervised than web results, so note anything outdated or misattributed with its address and date, and fix it at the source page rather than at the search engine.

Honest by design — including what we don't do

What we do

Show you what people find, result by result, and ask you to confirm what's actually you.
Build your personal site from facts you approved — nothing is published without your approval.
Use licensed search data and official tools only. No scraping.
Keep watch weekly, in plain English, with one clear next step.

What we never do

No fake reviews, fake profiles, fake news, or bought links.
No bogus takedown notices, and no promises to remove results or guarantee rankings.
No searching for anyone but you, and we never sell your data.

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