Content shared by Anthropic’s Claude users appeared in Google Search results, Axios reported Monday. Files called “artifacts”—including “documents, code snippets, single-page HTML websites, SVG images, diagrams and flowcharts [and] Interactive React components”—were accessible, along with business records, company plans, spreadsheets and medical documents, but not chatbot conversations. An Anthropic spokesperson stated, “We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly, and in keeping with our privacy principles, we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google.” The spokesperson added, “These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to share them themselves. When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services.” A Google spokesperson said, “Neither Google nor any other search engine controls what pages are made public on the web, and these pages were indexed across many search engines. We give site owners clear controls to decide whether pages can be crawled or indexed, and we always respect those directives.” Om Patel, founder of AI research platform BigIdeasDB, posted on X that “every app, doc, dashboard and tool people published from Claude is also sitting indexed and searchable,” adding that “people have already pulled up internal company dashboards, full project plans with client details, and someone’s entire clinical trial summary with real medical data in it