June 4, 2026

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

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For months, publishers have faced a binary choice with Google: let AI Overviews summarise your content at the top of the search page, sending less traffic to your site, or disappear from Google entirely. As of Wednesday, that choice no longer applies...