Your Claude AI chats may be searchable on Google: Here’s how to keep them private

4 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2026 03:30 PM IST Anthropic researchers began the experiment by identifying 3,307 values. (Image: Unsplash)Claude users who believed their conversations with the popular AI chatbot were private, got a rude shock after learning that those chats could be accessed with a simple Google search. Dozens of such user conversations with Claude were found to be discoverable via search engines like Google and Bing, as per reports. The backlash over some Claude chats showing up in search results began on Sunday, July 26, when users on Reddit posted that typing “site:claude.ai/share” on Google or Bing pulled up chat logs that included personal conversations.A possible explanation for this is that Anthropic allows Claude users to create public links to their chat threads. This