Google Voice Voicemail can be found in public google search results

[Chemaz]

Just go to google and type in "site:https://www.google.com/voice/fm/*" and you will be shown a list of ppls voicemails on google voice, some are test ones, other are real and dates range from a few months ago to a few days ago

Source Boy Genius Report

Google say ppl have agreed to have them shared when they post them on the web but i doubt they realised google would index them so they are searchable

[Colin-uk Veteran]

well that was fun :p

[DukeEsquire]

Why are there so few results?

[Phantom Helix]

What the hell?

This needs some serious investigation by the news staff

[fhpuqrgrpgvirzhpujbj]

This is so awesome. :laugh:

[oceanmotion]

Scary

[_neutrino Veteran]

Scary

wow that is actually rather terrifying. I am not sure i would like to have my voice mails or sms messages posted via google to anyone that knows how to search for it. I do use my Google voice number as my primary calling number and if anything like that would happen with any of my friends or families personal information it could be very bad.

[George P Global Moderator]

I wonder how many people agreed to this without even knowing it'd be like this exactly. You know, lots of people just click yes to the TOS/EULA and never actually read it.

[ObiWanToby]

I wonder how many people agreed to this without even knowing it'd be like this exactly. You know, lots of people just click yes to the TOS/EULA and never actually read it.

If this is even intended. I think the assumption is this is unintended.

[iamwhoiam]

I recall a few years ago about people being concerned with Google eventually doing these types of things and were labeled as "privacy nuts". Looks like they were right.

[sweetleaf]

Does not work for me.

[+John Teacake MVC]

haha thats cool

[Srugie Veteran]

:laugh:

[TheDreamX]

False alarm. Someone would have to have specifically told Google to allow said messages or the links have been used outside the service (i.e. blogs) for the items to be indexed by Google Search.

UPDATE: It seems as if these voicemails have been publicly posted/shared online and Google indexes them. Here’s official word:

“Since the initial idea behind posting a voicemail, was precisely to share it with others, we did not restrict crawling of those messages that users post on the web, but we can certainly understand that users would want to make them public on their sites but not necessarily searchable directly outside of their own website. We made a change to prevent those to be crawled so only the site owner can decide to index them.”

[Boeing 787]

Looks like they are blocking it now...