On Friday, Amit Singhal, the head of Google Search (we know him as the boss of Matt Cutts back in the day), wrote on the Google blog on policy that Google will enable people to fill out a form and request removal of what is called “revenge porn.”

Revenge porn is when people post images of you in a private and intimate setting that is aimed at embarrassing you and taking revenge. Amit explains that revenge porn is when “an ex-partner seeking to publicly humiliate a person by posting private images of them, or hackers stealing and distributing images from victims’ accounts.” He added that “some images even end up on “sextortion” sites that force people to pay to have their images removed.”

Google will add a new form in the coming weeks to enable users to remove these images from Google’s search index. Amit knows “this won’t solve the problem of revenge porn” but it will help.

Google already honors such requests to remove social security numbers, bank information, signatures and other potentially harmful content that can be indexed on people.

Here is more:

Forum discussion at Google+.

Image credit to ShutterStock for shocked elderly people.