Alphabet-owned Google is working on blocking user conversations with its new Bard generative AI assistant from being indexed on its Search platform or showing up as results.
“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,” Google’s Search Liaison account posted on Twitter, now X.
The internet search giant was responding to an SEO Consultant who pointed out on Twitter that user conversations with Bard were being indexed on Google Search.
The generative AI assistant, which was opened for public sign-ups in March, received an update this month that allowed users to share their conversations with the assistant via a public link-sharing feature.
This feature, according to the Twitter post, could be the reason behind the conversations being indexed on Search.
However, any conversation with Bard that has not been shared publicly is not being indexed, according to Peter J Liu, a research scientist at Google Deep Mind.
“That is only for explicitly shared conversations. Your conversations are not public by default,” Liu posted on Twitter.
Although Liu’s comments might bring some respite for generative AI users, Google Bard’s notice or warning on sharing conversations might be misleading for many.
Bard’s warning, which was posted via a picture on Twitter by...
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