Google may give sites a way to opt out of AI search generative features

You may soon be able to tell Google to not use your content for AI Overviews, AI Mode and other search AI features.

SEO Pulse: Google Explores AI Opt-Outs, Gemini 3 Powers AIOs

Google explores letting sites opt out of AI search features, Gemini 3 becomes the default for AI Overviews, and Altman admits ...

UK wants Google to allow sites, creators to opt out of AI overviews

Britain’s competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews. It’s part ...
TechCrunch

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in ...
NPR

Online news publishers face 'extinction-level event' from Google's AI-powered search

When Google unveiled AI Overviews last year, online publishers worried that the AI-generated blurbs in the top spot of search results would spark precipitous declines in traffic and gut the business ...
Forbes

Quality Clicks: Google Rebuts Its Critics Sans Data

Amid evidence of an online catastrophe for publishers both large and small, Google is officially challenging the narrative that its AI Overviews tool is leading people to click into search engine ...