Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Core Viewpoint - The Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint against Google, alleging misuse of web content for AI Overviews in Google Search, which has led to significant harm for publishers, particularly in traffic, readership, and revenue loss [1] Group 1 - The complaint states that publishers do not have the option to opt out of their material being used in AI summaries unless they are willing to disappear from Google search results entirely [1] - Google has been adding AI-generated summaries to search results for over a year, and this feature is reportedly causing major traffic declines for news publishers [2] - Google argues that new AI experiences in Search create opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered, and claims about web traffic are often based on incomplete data [3]