{"id":1012071,"date":"2026-06-04T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012071"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:00:13","slug":"google-must-let-uk-publishers-opt-out-of-ai-search-under-new-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/google-must-let-uk-publishers-opt-out-of-ai-search-under-new-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Google must let UK publishers opt out of AI search under new rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google&#8217;s search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s AI features, as the watchdog ramps up its oversight. <\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority has flagged concerns about Google&#8217;s dominance in search, designating the company with the &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; that allows it to set targeted rules \u200cto increase \u2060trust and \u2060transparency. <\/p>\n<p>Google accounts for more than 90% of UK queries and the regulator said in January it wanted \u200bto give publishers more control over how their content was used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google&#8217;s search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s AI features, as the watchdog ramps up its oversight. The country&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority has flagged concerns about Google&#8217;s dominance in search, designating the company with the &#8220;strategic market status&#8221; that allows it to set targeted rules \u200cto increase \u2060trust and \u2060transparency. Google accounts for more than 90% of UK queries and the regulator said in January it wanted \u200bto give publishers more control over how their content was used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012095,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012071\/revisions\/1012095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}