Google's polarizing generative AI summaries that appear at the top of search results are particularly unpopular among publishers. Regulatory intervention in the UK may offer them a way out. Katie is a ...

The UK’s CMA wants to make it possible for web publishers to opt out of Google’s AI Overviews without losing their search visibility. Having the “strategic market status” label in the country, Google ...

Google is exploring controls that could let sites opt out of Search generative AI features. Gemini 3 is now the default model for AI Overviews globally, with a new path into AI Mode. Sam Altman said ...

A few weeks ago, we reported Google was exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of showing up in Google's AI features, like ...

Google announced yesterday that it is exploring ways for sites to opt out of Google using their content for its AI-generative search features, such as AI Mode and AI Overviews. I asked the SEO ...

The U.K’.s Competition Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed new rules to give publishers more control over how Google uses their content in AI features like its AI Overviews. The upshot: publishers ...

Google is exploring new options to allow websites and publishers to opt out of having their content used in AI Overviews. The move comes after the UK government urged the company to provide more ...

Google says it's exploring the option of letting publishers opt out of having their website content used to generate AI Overviews at the top of search results. In a blog post published on Thursday, ...