In June 2026, we completed a full audit of the Teleteg search index — removing over 95% of indexed pages, expanding our keyword blocklist to 700+ terms, and disabling automatic page generation. Here is what we found and what we did.
Teleteg is a search engine for public Telegram channels and groups. Since launch, our index has grown to cover millions of communities — and like any platform that scales, we eventually had to confront a problem we hadn't fully anticipated: search result pages were being created automatically based on user queries, and some of those queries were anything but legitimate.
Search result pages on Teleteg were generated automatically whenever a user searched for a keyword that hadn't been queried before. This was designed to improve SEO and help users find relevant communities faster on repeat searches. In practice, it also meant that anyone searching for adult content, gambling resources, drug-related communities, or phishing tools would inadvertently create a indexed page on our platform — one that search engines could find and rank.
Over time, this created a significant problem. Thousands of pages existed on our domain that had nothing to do with legitimate Telegram discovery. They were damaging our search engine reputation, sending the wrong signals to Google, and contradicting everything we stand for as a platform built for researchers, journalists, and professionals.
A full audit of our search index revealed the scale of the problem. A large portion of our indexed search result pages were associated with queries involving adult content, explicit material, gambling, narcotics, hacking tools, fraud, and other policy-violating topics. Many of these pages had accumulated over years of open access with insufficient filtering at the point of page creation.
We also found a large number of low-quality pages — keyword combinations that were nonsensical, auto-generated letter sequences, and single-character queries that produced no meaningful results. These added no value to users and diluted the quality of our domain in the eyes of search engines.
In June 2026, we took the following steps:
The pages that survived our audit cover topics that are genuinely useful for our core user base: cryptocurrency and trading communities, educational groups, language learning, technology, news, sports, and regional communities across legitimate geographies. These are the searches that reflect how Teleteg is actually used by journalists, researchers, and professionals.
We are committed to keeping the platform clean. The combination of a significantly expanded blocklist and disabled auto-generation means the problem cannot recur at scale. Any future additions to our search index will be reviewed before publication.
We recognise that this audit was overdue. We are making it public because we believe transparency about content moderation decisions is important — and because we want users, researchers, and search engines to understand that Teleteg is a platform that takes quality and legitimacy seriously.
If you have questions about our content policy or want to report a page that should not be indexed, please contact us via Telegram at @teleteg_support.
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