Google tests option to allow sites to opt out of appearing in AI search results
Google is testing a new feature that allows website owners to opt out of appearing in generative AI search results. This initiative aims to provide more control and insights for website owners as user preferences evolve. The company is also enhancing its AI tools to improve user satisfaction and engagement with search results.
- ▪Google is introducing a control in Search Console for website owners to manage their appearance in generative AI search features.
- ▪The new toggle allows sites to opt out of being included in AI Overviews and AI Mode, impacting traffic and impressions.
- ▪Google is actively engaging with publishers and regulators to ensure website owners have the necessary tools as user preferences change.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 8 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Google Is Testing an Option for Websites to Opt Out of AI Search — CNET
- ▪ Publishers in UK can opt out of Google AI search results — BBC News — Tech
- ▪ Google will allow websites to exclude themselves from AI search results — Engadget
- ▪ Google will let websites opt-out of AI Mode & Overviews in Search — 9to5Google
Hacker News (Newest) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 5,306 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/new-controls-website-owners/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:38:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T11:42:03.948Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T11:42:03.948Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | gBZm9mG46XcK · 5 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Breadcrumb Products & Platforms Products Search New opportunities, control and insights for website owners { "reading_time": "[[read\u002Dtime]] min read" } Jun 03, 2026 · Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link We’re introducing new tools to help website owners navigate AI in Search, including a new control in Search Console, performance insights and updated best practices. Mrinalini Loew General Manager, Google Search Ecosystem Share x.com Facebook LinkedIn Mail Copy link class ProgressiveImage { EVENTS = { TRANSITION_END: 'transitionend', }; CSS_CLASSES = { BLUR: 'uni-progressive-image--blur', NO_BLUR: 'uni-progressive-image--no-blur', }; init(el) { this.el = el; this._events(); this._upgradeImage(); } _upgradeImage() { // For gif format images we don't include data-srcset and…
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