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This was before the document had been sent to anyone. It was still being edited, only my friend and I were working on it. Also, the documents were not public.


I would be surprised if Microsoft is intentionally indexing links in private documents, but my point stands: Google et al are remarkably good at indexing the web. If you don't want an otherwise public URL indexed you must use robots.txt or equivalent.


>If you don't want an otherwise public URL indexed you must use robots.txt or equivalent.

Which only blocks bots that respect the file...




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