The European Commission and U.K. 's competition regulator have both received legal complaints this week from publishers over Alphabet's new Google AI Overview tool, saying the company is abusing its dominance and is directing traffic away from news websites.
It comes after Google started rolling out its AI Overview feature--where summaries are displayed over Google's blue-linked search results to other websites--last year, first in the U.S., before bringing the service to users in the U.K. in August 2024 and the EU earlier this year.