Anthropic’s shared Claude chats surfaced in search results after missing page-level noindex
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-28
Anthropic’s shared Claude chats were found in search results after the company relied on robots.txt alone instead of a page-level noindex control.
- WIRED/Futurism reported that some shared chat pages, including sensitive medical, school, employee, and internal-company material, were discoverable via search.
- Anthropic says shared chats are public only when users create URL-based snapshots, and that discovery happens when those links are posted elsewhere.
- The practical fix is page-level indexing control, not crawler blocking alone; users can also revoke shared chats in Settings > Privacy > Shared chats.
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