Google & Other Search Engines Found Indexing Links to Private WhatsApp Groups
Google | February 24, 2020
It has been discovered that search engines, including Google, are indexing invites to private groups on WhatsApp. A journalist named Jordan Wildon made this discovery and shared the following information on Twitter. Any link to a WhatsApp group that was shared outside of a private message could be found in Google. Users could follow the links to join the group. The fact that the links were, at some point, shared publicly is what lead Google to indexing the content in search results.