Google starts testing changes to AI search after UK media sites given power to opt out - business live

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• From 6h ago 07.28 BST Introduction: Google must give UK publishers choice to block AI search summaries, says competition watchdog Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.
• The UK’s competition watchdog has announced that web publishers and news organisations will now be able to opt out of AI overviews of Google search results.
• The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said its new rules will put “publishers, like news organisations, in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google”.
• The intervention comes after complaints by media organisations that they have experienced a drop in click-through traffic to their websites – and therefore their revenue – since Google started posting AI summaries at the top of search results.
• CMA chief executive Sarah Cardell said in a statement: double quotation mark With features like AI Overviews rapidly reshaping online search, it...