Teams site showing up in public Bing results

[Dale Wilson]

Today a team member did a random public search on Bing using some keywords from an ongoing project. The first result was a link to a file on our internal MS Teams site. Is this supposed to happen? How can we prevent this?

[#2]

@Adam Harmetz,
This afternoon when I search for random urls of our client sites they appeared in the search results. Also sites used by teams would appear with their url. I don't think that this was down to sharing sites. Or are you saying if any anonymous link was ever shared then the whole tenant would have been crawled by bing?

[#3]

I think this is good feedback and I will share it with the team responsible for this work.  I think there should have been a post.

[#4]

Thanks.  There could be more ways in which a internet search crawler might have picked up sites in the past that I do not know about.  I will ask around and see. 

We do believe that with the work to update robots.txt, upon next crawl/over time these will age out.

What would be helpful to use to ensure we have a good understanding of the issue is if you have any sites created in the past day or two that appear in a search results.  We would be looking for a site that still appears there even after the robots.txt change.

[#5]

Just want to say thanks to everyone who responded on the thread. Must say this shook us a bit. Will monitor the results over time based on the robots.txt file.

[#6]

Just confirming. I was able to recreate the same for my team's site by searching it on Bing. However, Google didnt throw it up for same keyword search. This is alarming. I am glad Microsoft is already working on fixing this but it worries me that such an issue existed in the first place and that a user had to chance bump into it, for us to find out. Hope to see this fixed soon. Thanks!

[#7]

That doesn't make sense, as the robots.txt file will not be accessible as the site is locked down.