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Eric Hal Schwartz

Your Grok chats are now appearing in Google search – here’s how to stop them

A laptop screen showing the Grok AI assistant on X or Twitter.
  • Grok conversations shared by users have been found indexed by Google
  • The interactions, no matter how private, became searchable by anyone online
  • The problem arose because Grok's share button didn't add noindex tags to prevent search engine discovery

If you’ve been spending time talking to Grok, your conversations might be visible with a simple Google search, as first uncovered in a report from Forbes. More than 370,000 Grok chats became indexed and searchable on Google without users' knowledge or permission when they used Grok's share button.

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