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Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options In AI Search


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While using website data to build a Google Search topped with artificial intelligence-generated answers, an Alphabet executive acknowledged in an internal document that there was an alternative way to do things: They could ask web publishers for pe...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While using website data to build a Google Search topped with artificial intelligence-generated answers, an Alphabet executive acknowledged in an internal document that there was an alternative way to do things: They could ask web publishers for permission, or let them directly opt out of being included. It said Google had a "hard red line" and would require all publishers who wanted their content to show up in the search page to also be used to feed AI features. This document is an early-stage list of options in an evolving space and doesn't reflect feasibility or actual decisions."

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