How do I remove a URL from Google without having to have a Google E-mail Account

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Published on 2010-03-22T16:39:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 16:41 UTC
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Really simple question. I do not want a Google account. I just want Google to stop making requests every 2 minutes for a URL it should never have known about (apparently Google harvests URLs from search requests as well as private e-mails, not just from actual web pages).

But when I search Google help for removing URLs it appears I have to use their "webmaster tools" which require logging into a GMail account!

How do I tell Google not to index my URL without becoming a customer?

Note: I already return 404 for the URLs in question using a rewrite rule - this appears to make zero difference to the crawler which continually attempts to fetch the page every 2 minutes.

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