Your Bard conversations are someone else's Google results

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If I told you that your seemingly private conversations with Bard are being indexed and appearing in Google search results, would you still use the AI chatbot? That's exactly what's happened, and Google is now scrambling to fix the issue.

Users on X, formerly Twitter, shared screenshots showing links to conversations with Bard that are showing up in Google Search results. 

Haha 😂 Google started to index share conversation URLs of Bard 😹 don't share any personal info with Bard in conversation, it will get indexed and may be someone will arrive on that conversation from search and see your info 😳
Also Bard's conversation URLs are ranking as… pic.twitter.com/SKGXJD9KEJ

— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_) September 26, 2023

This appears to be unintentional, as Google only intends to allow users to create a public link to share conversations with others. Anyone with this link can see the conversation, but Google appears to be indexing them.

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