UK Regulator Forces Google to Let Publishers Escape AI Overviews and Stay in Search
Britain's CMA used Google's 'strategic market status' to force an opt-out, so publishers can leave AI Overviews without being deleted from search results entirely.
"objective and non-discriminatory criteria"
TechSpot
Google’s deal had always been take the AI Overview that strip-mines your work or vanish from search altogether, and Britain’s competition watchdog finally broke the hostage situation. The UK Competition and Markets Authority designated Google with strategic market status in search in October, meaning publishers can have their sites excluded from AI Overviews without being cut out of search results. The order goes further: Google must let publishers opt out of having their work used to fine-tune AI models, and the once-secret results algorithm now has to run on objective and non-discriminatory criteria. A regulator did in one ruling what years of begging could not. TechSpot on the CMA order
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