UK orders Google to let publishers opt out of AI features without leaving Search

Publishers in the UK will get a way to refuse Google’s AI features while remaining indexed in normal search, breaking the previous all-or-nothing bargain

New scraping rules for the biggest scraper in town The @CMAgovUK just made publishers able to opt out of @Google 's AI features while staying indexed in normal search. A world first. 9 months for Google to implement. Before this, opti
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