I Removed My Public ChatGPT Link from Google in 9 Minutes

A shared ChatGPT link I created for feedback got indexed by Google. It wasn’t supposed to feel public — until it was. The issue was later fixed on the platform’s side, but caches and copies exist. So I cleaned up fast. You can too.

Let me walk you through it, just as I did with a friend this morning — one person, one browser, ten minutes.

I was skimming emails when a teammate pinged me a screenshot from Google. “Is this your ChatGPT conversation?”

My stomach dropped. It was the shared link I’d used last month to get quick feedback on a client draft — strategy notes, pricing ideas, the kind of thing you never want floating around search results.

Yes, the platform addressed the indexing behavior afterward. But that’s not the point. The point is what it reminded me: anything you share on the internet can travel in ways you didn’t intend. Private feels private until it doesn’t.

So I did a quick sweep. Here’s the exact sequence — fast, simple, effective.

The 9-Minute Clean-Up

1) Delete any shared links inside ChatGPT.