UK regulator forces Google to provide AI scraping opt out for publishers (opens in new tab)

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has issued a landmark order requiring Google to allow publishers to opt out of AI-generated search features. This mandate ensures that news organizations can prevent their content from appearing in AI Overviews without losing visibility in traditional search results. Previously, website owners had to block Google's crawlers entirely to avoid AI scraping, which effectively removed them from all search engine indexing. <a href="