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You can edit the headline to remove “may”:
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by foco_tubi
Am I misunderstanding something, or isn’t this a non-issue, as people shared those links publicly for google to find them?
by finger
This is a longstanding UX issue with unlisted URL’s. I’ve encountered this in my own products. Folks don’t know that sharing a link means it definitely will get indexed by Google.
Unfortunately this can’t be fixed via robots.txt — Google won’t proactively crawl the URL, but it does still index pages it finds from external links.
A `noindex` meta tag, however, does prevent pages from being indexed, so that feels like the appropriate solution here.
by ed
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- Hacker News
- You can edit the headline to remove “may”:
site:claude.ai/public/artifacts
by foco_tubi - Am I misunderstanding something, or isn’t this a non-issue, as people shared those links publicly for google to find them?by finger
- This is a longstanding UX issue with unlisted URL’s. I’ve encountered this in my own products. Folks don’t know that sharing a link means it definitely will get indexed by Google.
Unfortunately this can’t be fixed via robots.txt — Google won’t proactively crawl the URL, but it does still index pages it finds from external links.
A `noindex` meta tag, however, does prevent pages from being indexed, so that feels like the appropriate solution here.
by ed