{
  "id": 19096714,
  "title": "As publishers await click data, Google’s AI visibility push complicates the opt-out decision",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/as-publishers-await-click-data-googles-ai-visibility-push-complicates",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-09T05:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Digiday",
    "slug": "digiday",
    "url": "https://digiday.com/media/as-publishers-await-click-data-googles-ai-visibility-push-complicates-the-opt-out-decision/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Digiday reports that Google is pushing AI visibility as a carrot for publisher opt-out decisions, complicating the publishers' choice. The search engine giant is simultaneously working towards the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority-mandated search opt-out publishers have long sought, while enhancing AI Overviews in ways that could make opting out less appealing. The opt-out feature, available on Search Console, allows publishers to exclude their content from Google's AI features, following the CMA's first conduct requirement on Google over the summer. The U.K.-only ruling was expanded to worldwide sites on August 31, with page-level grounding controls due by March 3, 2027.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}