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DeepSeek’s shared conversation links are indexed by Google and discoverable with a simple site: search on the /share/ directory. David Konitzny documented the mechanism (full article, Jul 2026): DeepSeek’s share button warns that “anyone with the link can view” but never mentions the link can be indexed by search engines — repeating the ChatGPT incidents of 2024. Usage findings from the indexed shared chats (small dataset, directional only, Jul 2026):
  • Russian is the top language at 31% of observed shared links; English second at 20%.
  • Only 13.2% of observed queries triggered a web search — most DeepSeek conversations run without retrieval. When search does trigger, the system generates five fan-outs immediately, dominated by year modifiers (2025/2026) and site: operators — the same patterns seen in other engines.
  • Most users treat DeepSeek as a single-question tool; conversations mostly end before ~10 message exchanges.
Shared-link exposure is a web-wide pattern, not an AI-specific one, and those links can even enter AI retrieval pipelines — see Shared URLs in AI retrieval. Source: When AI conversations become public: an analysis of DeepSeek shared links, David Konitzny, LinkedIn, Jul 2026.