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Google AI Overviews breaks the search ‘grand bargain’ with publishers

Google’s AI Overviews now roll out to all US English-language users, summarizing web content above the blue links so users need not click through.

Why it matters. Publishers lose referral traffic from search while having no way to withhold their content from AI Overviews short of disappearing from Google entirely.

Signal from pressgazette.co.uk · David Buttle · read the original.

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