{"id":1032847,"date":"2026-09-03T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032847"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:52:28","slug":"eu-antitrust-regulators-quiz-publishers-on-googles-ai-search-opt-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/eu-antitrust-regulators-quiz-publishers-on-googles-ai-search-opt-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EU antitrust regulators quiz publishers on Google&#8217;s AI search opt-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU antitrust regulators are seeking feedback from publishers on Google&#8217;s proposal to let them opt out of AI search without affecting their rankings in search results, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed. <\/p>\n<p>The publishers&#8217; feedback could determine the outcome \u200cof an \u2060ongoing \u2060EU investigation that could result in yet another hefty fine for \u200bGoogle if the proposal fails to address competition concerns and publishers&#8217; \u200bworries about unfair use of their content. <\/p>\n<p>Google announced its AI opt-out for publishers in June, the same day the \u200bUK antitrust watchdog ordered it to \u2060allow publishers \u200cthe option to stop their content being \u200bused to \u200bpower its AI features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU antitrust regulators are seeking feedback from publishers on Google&#8217;s proposal to let them opt out of AI search without affecting their rankings in search results, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed. The publishers&#8217; feedback could determine the outcome \u200cof an \u2060ongoing \u2060EU investigation that could result in yet another hefty fine for \u200bGoogle if the proposal fails to address competition concerns and publishers&#8217; \u200bworries about unfair use of their content. Google announced its AI opt-out for publishers in June, the same day the \u200bUK antitrust watchdog ordered it to \u2060allow publishers \u200cthe option to stop their content being \u200bused [&hellip;]<\/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-1032847","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\/1032847","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=1032847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032863,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032847\/revisions\/1032863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}