How to block or remove content

Remove content from your site

Applicable: all content types

Removing content from your site is the best way to ensure that it won't appear in Claude outputs when Claude searches the web.

Password-protect your files

Applicable: all content types

If you have confidential or private content on your site, you need to password protect it to ensure only authorized users can access it. This will also prevent that content from appearing in Claude outputs that rely on web search, or if it already appears, it will eventually remove that content from our search results.

noindex tag

Applicable: all content types

The noindex robots meta tag is a rule that tells our partners not to index your content so that they don’t send it to us in response to your web search query. Your content can still be linked to and visited through other web pages, or directly visited by users with a link, but the content will not appear in Claude outputs that use web search.

Disallow crawling with robots.txt

Applicable: images and video

Our search partners only index images and videos that their bots are allowed to crawl. To prevent them from accessing your media files, use robots.txt rules to block the files.

Block access to a URL already appearing in Claude outputs

Applicable: all content types

Submit a request to webresultsoptout@anthropic.com, including information necessary to prove you own the URL, which can be: an ICANN registration, WHOIS lookup result, domain registration payment receipt, SSL certificate, or use of a domain-specific email address.

Report problematic content

Applicable: all content within a shared Claude conversation

Use the “report” button on the shared content.

Remove unauthorized copyrighted content

Applicable: all content types

Follow the instructions here.