Anthropic Adds Noindex, Nofollow Tags to Claude Pages to Block Search Indexing
Anthropic added "noindex" and "nofollow" tags to its shared Claude conversation pages, preventing web search crawlers from indexing public links created by users.
The technical update follows reports that shared chats containing private messages, corporate data and medical records were surfacing in search engine results. An Anthropic spokesperson previously stated the sharing feature functions as intended, noting that posting links makes the conversations publicly accessible to the open web.
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@btibor91In case you missed the drama around shared Claude conversations appearing in search results, Anthropic has just added "noindex, nofollow" to prevent this from happening again
@aurorawenterswhat a tragic week it has been for Claude users. private chats, medical records, internal corporate data, explicit content indexed and exposed on search engines. Anthropic spokesperson says it's working as intended. that when people decid