UK publishers lobby to exclude ChatGPT from Google search choice screen over traffic loss
Servola-Journal · reddit · 2026-08-24
UK publishers are lobbying to keep ChatGPT and Perplexity off Google's new default search engine choice screen. The argument is that AI chatbots answer questions directly without sending referral traffic to publisher sites, unlike traditional search engines. The debate centers on defining whether a "search engine" returns links or answers.
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