Exclusive-Googles AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers
Brussels (Reuters) -Alfabet’s Google, according to a document by Reuters, was shot by an EU Antitröst complaint on a group of independent publishers on artificial intelligence.
Google’s artificial intelligence overviews are summaries created by AI, which appear on traditional bridges on the relevant web pages and shown to users in more than 100 countries. Last May, artificial intelligence began to add advertising to its general gaze.
The company integrates the biggest bet by integrating AI, but it has been concerned about some content providers, such as movement publishers.
Independent publishers on June 30 complain to the European Commission and claim that Google abuse market power in online search.
“Google’s core search engine service abuse the web content for Google Search’s AI’s Overview of Google Search, which is damaging significant damage to publishers in the form of traffic, readers and loss of income, and the cause continues.” He said.
Google, AI’s overview of the general search engine results to display its own summarys created using the publisher material, and Google’s positioning disadvantages claims the original content of its publishers.
The complaint, “Google Search publishers, Google’s AI Great Language Model training is not the option to exit the option and/or Google’s overall search results page without losing the ability to appear for summarizes.” He said.
The Commission refused to comment.
England’s Competition and Markets Authority confirmed that the complaint was received.
Google, every day, said it sends billions of clicks on websites.
“New AI experiences in search makes people ask more questions, which creates new opportunities for discovering content and businesses,” a Google spokesman said. He said.
Independent publishers Alliance’s website says it is a non -profit community that advocates for independent publishers that it does not name.
A open web movement containing its members and publishers of digital advertisers and publishers and the British profit, which says that it defends for justice in the world of technology, is also signed by the complaint.
They said that a temporary measure was necessary to prevent serious irreparable damages and access to the news.
Google, a large number of allegations about traffic from the search often based on extremely missing and distorted data, he said.
Google spokesman, “The truth is that sites can gain and lose traffic for various reasons, including seasonal demand, users’ interests and regular algorithmic updates to make search.” He said.
Foxglove co -director Rosa Curling said that journalists and publishers face a terrible situation.
“Independent news faces an existential threat: Google’s general gaze.”
“With this complaint, Foxglove and our partners call the European Commission to take an attitude with other regulators in the world and allow independent journalism to come into play,” Curling said. He said.
Three groups of similar complaints and the United Kingdom competition authority requested a temporary measures.
Complaints, a US Edtech company by Google’s overall view of artificial intelligence eroding the original content demand and publishers’ ability to compete in visitors and subscribers weakens the ability to compete.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee. Editing by Jane Merriman)
