08/27/2026
Publishers have spent decades allowing Google to crawl their websites under an understood arrangement: Google could index the material, and publishers could receive visitors in return. AI Overviews fundamentally alter that exchange.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL – A federal judge is questioning whether Google is using its search monopoly to take publishers’ content while sending them increasingly little traffic in return. During a hearing in Penske Media Corporation’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta...