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Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)

Techmeme 27 July 2026 8h ago
Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)
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Maddy Varner / Wired : Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag — The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.
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