ChatGPT Public Chats Were Indexed by Google—Here’s What Happened

ChatGPT Public Chats Were Indexed by Google—Here’s What Happened

Are ChatGPT Conversations Public? Everything You Need to Know Have you recently come across a shared ChatGPT conversation in Google search results? You’re not alone. For a brief period, ChatGPT public chats were getting indexed by Google , raising major privacy concerns and catching users by surprise. Although OpenAI has since removed this feature, questions about how it happened—and what it means for user privacy—are still circulating online. Whether you’re a regular ChatGPT user, an SEO expert, or simply curious about how your AI chats could end up in search results, this blog post breaks down everything you need to know. Image Credits:OpenAI How ChatGPT Public Chats Got Indexed by Google In July 2025, users began noticing that private-looking conversations with ChatGPT were showing up in Google search results. These indexed pages had URLs beginning with https://chatgpt.com/share/ , which pointed to shared conversations that had been made public—intentionally or not. Technically, OpenAI d…