{"slug": "google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to", "title": "Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go", "summary": "Google has introduced an opt-out toggle in Search Console allowing website operators to exclude their content from AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which reach over 3.5 billion monthly users. The change, prompted by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, includes new performance reports but leaves most sites with no viable alternative traffic source.", "body_md": "For the first time, Google is giving website operators an opt-out toggle in Search Console for AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which together already reach more than 3.5 billion monthly users. New performance reports break out impressions separately. The move was prompted by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which sees website operators at a severe disadvantage.\n\nThe article [Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go](https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/", "published_at": "2026-06-03 19:28:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-03 20:08:51.538135+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-products", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Google", "CMA", "Search Console", "AI Overviews", "AI Mode", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to.jsonld"}}