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My bigger takeaway here is that I didn’t realize that Google shared the full text of search queries that users used that resulted in a site being returned. Tha

My bigger takeaway here is that I didn’t realize that Google shared the full text of search queries that users used that resulted in a site being returned. That seems like a bigger personal data leak than OpenAI doing anything here.

weird-eye-issue 1y ago
It doesn't.
- thesumofall 1y ago
  Isn’t that what Google Search Console is for? https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13682862?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13682862?hl=en&c...
  - weird-eye-issue 1y ago
    "To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information." https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553?hl=en#aboutdata https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553?hl=en#a...
- floundy 1y ago
  It absolutely does, do you even use Google Search Console? For just one of my websites, I have 223 pages of queries I can look through from the past 28 days to see what users typed in that were provided impressions of my site or clicked on it.
  - weird-eye-issue 1y ago
    Yeah, I've used it for years for my business. "To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information."
    - cortesoft 1y ago
      If that is the case, then how would these chat gpt queries show up? They were only made by one person.
porridgeraisin 1y ago
Yeah that seems weird. I wouldn't expect it to do that.
jumploops 1y ago
I seem to recall seeing publicly shared ChatGPT conversations indexed in Google results.
- weird-eye-issue 1y ago
  Yeah I think they have them set to not be indexed by search engines now though
jhpacker 1y ago
GSC does filter and threshold what shows, but that doesn't always work 100%. Also those filters are built to work against traditional keyword searches, not prompts. It's also supposed to threshold low volume queries which should have kept a lot of things prompts out of GSC, but for whatever reason that wasn't very effective. I've worked in many GSC consoles over the years, and I've never seen anything like what I saw in this case. (I'm the original author)

weird-eye-issue 1y ago

It doesn't.

thesumofall 1y ago
Isn’t that what Google Search Console is for? https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13682862?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13682862?hl=en&c...
- weird-eye-issue 1y ago
  "To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information." https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553?hl=en#aboutdata https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7576553?hl=en#a...
floundy 1y ago
It absolutely does, do you even use Google Search Console? For just one of my websites, I have 223 pages of queries I can look through from the past 28 days to see what users typed in that were provided impressions of my site or clicked on it.
- weird-eye-issue 1y ago
  Yeah, I've used it for years for my business. "To protect user privacy, the Performance report doesn't show all data. For example, we might not track some queries that are made a very small number of times or those that contain personal or sensitive information."
  - cortesoft 1y ago
    If that is the case, then how would these chat gpt queries show up? They were only made by one person.

porridgeraisin 1y ago

Yeah that seems weird. I wouldn't expect it to do that.

jumploops 1y ago

I seem to recall seeing publicly shared ChatGPT conversations indexed in Google results.

weird-eye-issue 1y ago
Yeah I think they have them set to not be indexed by search engines now though

jhpacker 1y ago

GSC does filter and threshold what shows, but that doesn't always work 100%. Also those filters are built to work against traditional keyword searches, not prompts. It's also supposed to threshold low volume queries which should have kept a lot of things prompts out of GSC, but for whatever reason that wasn't very effective. I've worked in many GSC consoles over the years, and I've never seen anything like what I saw in this case. (I'm the original author)