(Entry was posted by Valentina Alessandrini on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/30/2014).

How do I contact Google to change search results?

Question -- I have a client whose brand name years ago included the word "Distributing." However, they don`t want to be known as "Distributing" but for some reason whenever you search their brand name, the word "Distributing" still remains attached in search results. How do I contact Google to tell them that the word "Distributing" should no longer come up with their brand name in search results??

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Valentina Alessandrini: Question -- I have a client whose brand name years ago included the word "Distributing." However, they don't want to be known as "Distributing" but for some reason whenever you search their brand name, the word "Distributing" still remains attached in search results. How do I contact Google to tell them that the word "Distributing" should no longer come up with their brand name in search results?
Mike Stetzer: Make sure you strip "distributing" off everything that you can control: Google+, Google Places, Facebook, Twitter, etc. If Google starts seeing search volume increase for the brand name WITHOUT the word distributing, over time it might correct itself. I wish there was a way for us to contact them and have them manually change this stuff :)
Mike Stetzer: I guess I should have asked, is "distributing" in the URL for their site?
Valentina Alessandrini: Distributing is not part of the URL and it has been stripped everywhere. We are stumped :/
Mike Stetzer: Now when you said "distributing" still remains attached in search results, do you mean in the auto suggest? or in the actual Meta Title of pages?