Publishers Won the Right to Say No to Google's AI. Here's What It Means.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ruled that Google must allow publishers to opt out of having their content used for AI Overviews without being penalised in standard search rankings. This follows a complaint that the feature, which can cause traffic losses of up to 79% for top-ranked sites, was an abuse of Google's market dominance.

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