
20250707 - Google AI overviews: publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU
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Google: users love lying AI slop, actually
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/07/publishers-file-competition-complaints-in-uk-and-eu-over-googles-ai-overviews/
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Sources:
Urgent bid lodged with UK regulator to stop Google AI Overviews ‘stealing journalism’ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/urgent-bid-lodged-with-uk-regulator-to-stop-google-ai-overviews-stealing-journalism/
Exclusive: Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/googles-ai-overviews-hit-by-eu-antitrust-complaint-independent-publishers-2025-07-04/
How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/how-google-forced-publishers-to-accept-ai-scraping-as-price-of-appearing-in-search/
Commission sends preliminary findings to Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_811
CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to-force-google-to-work-more-fairly-with-uk-publishers/
Previously on Pivot to AI:
Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/19/google-is-no-longer-asking-feed-the-ai-or-youre-not-in-search-results/
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