If Google is spooked by the DOJ's aggressive legal tactics, it's not showing it.
Losing a major antitrust case in which it was found to be operating an illegal monopoly over internet searches doesn’t seem to have slaked Google’s greed for more control over search results. Even as the Department of Justiceits search businesses may need to be broken up, the company is testing new ways to suck even more traffic and ad revenue away from small website owners.
It’s interesting timing for Google to be looking for new ways to keep users on its domain, given the angry noises coming from Washington. The language seems targeted at Google’s AI Overview feature, which summarizes the content on other websites. But it would likely also apply to a feature like Quick View that scoops up entire sections of content and repackages it at the top of search results.on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the way Google misappropriates content from website owners and how those practices enrich the tech giant by steering traffic and ad revenue away from smaller publishers.
The only way for the recipe publisher to avoid having their content stolen by Google would be to opt out of being indexed by the web’s most powerful gatekeeper, “which would result in a materially significant drop in referral traffic,” they wrote.
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