Google To Block Bard Shared Conversations From Google Search – Search Engine Roundtable
Google launched shared conversations in Google Bard about a week ago and forgot to ensure search engines can’t index the results. The robots.txt had(s) nothing in it to block bard.google.com/share from being indexed and since Google Search likes to index things, it indexed those public conversations.
Here is a screenshot of what I saw yesterday afternoon (click to enlarge):
Note, this morning when the story went live, Google is showing twice as many URLs in its index than it did yesterday.
This was spotted first by Gagan Ghotra and he posted about it on X. I asked Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liason about this, saying Google Search can’t really be interested in indexing this and he said I am right.
Sullivan wrote, “Bard allows people to share chats, if they choose. We also don’t intend for these shared chats to be indexed by Google Search. We’re working on blocking them from being indexed now.”
Here are those tweets:
Bard allows people to share chats, if they choose. We also…
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