Google & Other Search Engines Found Indexing Links to Private WhatsApp Groups

 Non-Public Whatspp group

Google & Other Search Engines Found Indexing Links to non-public WhatsApp Group

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It has been discovered that search engines, including Google are indexing invites to non-public groups on WhatsApp.

A journalist named Jordan Wildon made this discovery and shared the subsequent information on Twitter:

“Your WhatsApp groups might not be as secure as you think that they're .

The “Invite to Group via Link” feature allows groups to be indexed by Google and that they are generally available across the web . With some wildcard search terms you'll easily find some… interesting… groups.”

Any link to a WhatsApp group that was shared outside of a personal message might be found in Google. Users could follow the links to hitch the group.

The fact that the links were,at some point, shared publicly is what lead Google to indexing the content in search results.

The way that the connections were, sooner or later, shared openly is the thing that lead Google to ordering the substance in list items.

Google’s Danny Sullivan acknowledged this on Twitter, saying:

“Search engines like Google ,yahoo,bing. That’s what’s happening here. It's the same than any situation where a site permits URLs to be freely recorded.

Sullivan also noted that there are tools available to dam content from being listed in search results.

It appears that somebody from WhatsApp must have utilized said tools, because the thousands of links to WhatsApp groups have since been faraway from Google.

While these links are faraway from Google, they’re still available to be found in search engines like Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc .

Apparently, this issue has been happening for months. It wasn’t until a piece of writing was published by Vice that any action was taken.

To be sure, only WhatsApp is liable for this issue. Search engines are getting to crawl and index what's publicly available, so this is often not the fault of Google or other search engine.