Claude’s ‘Private’ Share Links Pop Up In Google Search
Content shared by Anthropic's Claude users subtly made its way onto the world's most popular search engine.
Content shared by Anthropic’s Claude users subtly made its way onto the world’s most popular search engine.
Files users created with the Claude chatbot appeared in Google Search results, Axios reported Monday. These files, what Claude calls “artifacts,” include “documents, code snippets, single-page HTML websites, SVG images, diagrams and flowcharts Interactive React components,” according to the Claude support website.
Axios was able to access public artifacts such as business records, company plans, spreadsheets and medical documents on Monday — but not chatbot conversations.
“We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly, and in keeping with our privacy principles, we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google,” an Anthropic spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves,” the spokesperson added. “When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services.”
Conversations shared from OpenAI’s ChatGPT were indexed on Google in July 2025, according to Fast Company. OpenAI removed the public chats from Google Search after about 24 hours.