Google Considers Letting Websites Opt Out of Having Content Scraped for AI Overviews

Google Considers Letting Websites Opt Out of Having Content Scraped for AI Overviews

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, the company addressed its approach to the controls it provides to websites in order to manage how their content appears in…

Google ‘exploring updates’ to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews

Google ‘exploring updates’ to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews

Google AI Overviews shown in front of a Google webpage. Picture: Shutterstock/DIA TV The UK’s competition watchdog has said publishers should be able to opt out of their content being used in Google’s AI Overviews without it affecting how they appear in search engine results. Google said in response it is already “exploring updates to…