Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search

The UK's competition regulator has imposed new publishing rules on Google, requiring the search giant to give news publishers more control over how their content appears in search results. The action follows Google's recent changes to AI-generated search summaries, which have raised concerns about the impact on news traffic and publisher revenue.

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