Google's AI Overviews Face Antitrust Complaints Over Traffic and Revenue Impact on Publishers.

Google's AI Overviews, a feature that provides AI-generated summaries at the top of search results pages, has sparked an antitrust complaint from independent publishers in the EU. They allege that Google is abusing its market dominance, siphoning traffic and revenue from publishers, and threatening the viability of independent journalism. The complaint was lodged with the European Commission, and the feature has been rolled out in over 100 countries, with Google's Gemini AI model processing search requests and synthesising information from its web index.