Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

A group known as Independent Publishers Alliance has filed a complaint from the European Commission for AI overview of Google, According to ReutersThe

The complaint is “Google has abused web content for AI overviews of Google, which has done significant damage to publishers including news publishers in the form of traffic, readers and earnings reduction.”

It also says that if they are not willing to fully disappear the results of Google search, publishers do not have the option to choose the “option” to use their material in AI summary.

After Google started adding AI-exposed summary at the top of the results of some web searches, and despite some initial answers it has been more than a year Spectacularly off-baseFeature Continued to stretchWhere it was reported to have happened Big traffic has been reduced for news publishersThe

Google told Reuters that “New AI experiences in search are enabled to ask more questions, which create new opportunities for content and business.” The company further argued that claims about web traffic are often based on incomplete information and “sites can achieve traffic for various reasons and lose.”