Google Responds to Searchable Voicemails

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The link points to a web page that displays only that particular message. The web address for that unique message is virtually impossible to guess.

However, if a user copied that unique URL from their email notification, and published it on a public website, then typical search engines, including Google, could have indexed it.

aka "Security through obscurity fails again"

It's not really all that obscure if you link to it on a public website.

In that case, why hide it behind an "unguessable" link?

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