A group of independent publishers has filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google due to its AI Overviews, which use web content without proper consent. These Overviews reportedly harm publishers by decreasing traffic and revenue. Publishers can’t opt out of having their content used for AI training without losing visibility in search results. Google's representation claims that its services help generate significant web traffic and enhance user engagement. However, the overall impact of AI on web traffic is uncertain, with publishers facing severe reductions in visits.
Google's core search engine service is misusing web content for Google's AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.
More than any other company, Google prioritizes sending traffic to the web, and we send billions of clicks to websites each day. New AI experiences in Search enable people to ask even more questions, which creates new opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered.
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