Google’s AI Overviews search feature will be impacted by a ‘world first’ rule in the UK. Here’s what will change (opens in new tab)

AI-generated summaries in Google search results take content from online publishers while reducing traffic to their websites—a tricky relationship that has been seemingly inevitable until now. Today, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that publishers to allow Google’s AI-generated tools to use their content in exchange for appearing in the search engine’s traditional links. “In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to...