Do you have a Google Voice account? If so, hopefully you don’t “make public” any voicemails saved within Google’s cloud, as they have now started to appear in the search results from Google.com.
Yes, you read that right. Voicemail transcription, a feature of Google Voice, transcribes audio contained within the voicemail message to text and sends it in an e-mail message to the owner of the account. Well, a few of these transcribed voicemails have started to appear within the search results on Google’s web site. Users of Google Voice are not happy.
According to Google, they’ve addressed the problem and now restrict which voicemails can and cannot be indexed by their crawler. Google also states that users should be aware of the “make public” options that can be performed on individual voicemails, so that you don’t accidentally share your messages with the rest of the world.
Yes, you read that right. Voicemail transcription, a feature of Google Voice, transcribes audio contained within the voicemail message to text and sends it in an e-mail message to the owner of the account. Well, a few of these transcribed voicemails have started to appear within the search results on Google’s web site. Users of Google Voice are not happy.
According to Google, they’ve addressed the problem and now restrict which voicemails can and cannot be indexed by their crawler. Google also states that users should be aware of the “make public” options that can be performed on individual voicemails, so that you don’t accidentally share your messages with the rest of the world.
- John and Mike
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