TechCrunch: Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines OpenAI has removed the ability to make shared ChatGPT links searchable on Google. The change follows reports of private information appearing in search results.

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