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UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking

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Google must allow UK publishers to opt out of its AI-generated search results, while keeping their placement in standard searches unchanged. The regulator has given the company nine months to add clearer links to AI results and to implement the opt-out mechanism. This new rule applies only to AI-based overviews, not to regular search listings.

Written from all 6 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. Engadget·
    Google will allow websites to exclude themselves from AI search results

    Google will allow websites to opt out of AI search results. This opt-out won't affect placement in regular searches. Websites can exclude themselves from AI-generated results.

  2. TechMeme·
    The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes (Imran Rahman-Jones/BBC)

    The UK's Competition and Markets Authority allows publishers to opt out of Google AI search results. Publishers can choose not to appear in AI Overviews. Google has nine months to implement the changes.

  3. The Next Web·
    UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
  4. The Verge·
    Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
  5. TechCrunch·
    Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation
  6. Ars Technica·
    Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
  7. The Next Web·
    UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking

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