{"id":3785,"date":"2026-02-19T04:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:49:39","slug":"google-allowing-opting-out-of-ai-overviews-is-a-huge-engineering-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=3785","title":{"rendered":"Google: Allowing Opting Out Of AI Overviews Is A Huge Engineering Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-cards-1771252685.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Cards\" title=\"Google: Allowing Opting Out Of AI Overviews Is A Huge Engineering Project\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>A few weeks ago, we reported that Google was exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of showing up in Google&#8217;s AI features, like AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google\u2019s Sulina Connal said at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age conference that this is a &#8220;huge engineering project.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Sulina Connal is Managing Director, News and Books Partnerships, EMEA at Google.<\/p> <p>The Press Gazette reported what she said at the event:<\/p> <blockquote><p>We\u2019ve heard the need for more controls and we\u2019ve heard that pretty consistently, controls on how news content appears on search, and we have a set of proposals from the authority in the UK. <\/p> <p>What I can tell you at this stage is that we\u2019re exploring more granular controls. Because AI is integral to how search works, implementing the new controls is a complex engineering, huge engineering project, and we have been highly intentional in our approach. The idea is to focus on simple, scalable tools that you can use to manage your content.<\/p> <p>We also understand that to allow you to make informed decisions about search AI features you need more information, and measuring users\u2019 engagement is key to that. We hear you, and we hear you loud and clear.<\/p> <\/blockquote> <p>The issue is Google wants to make sure the controls do not impact Google core search features and just work to block it from being used for AI search features.<\/p> <p>Also, at that event, Arun Venkataraman, who leads Google\u2019s global industry research partnerships with the news ecosystem, told a separate event in London hosted by Beehiiv on Thursday that \u201coverall traffic referrals from search have actually not decreased based off of our internal data.&#13;<br \/> \u201cBut what is happening is the sources that that traffic referral is going to are more disparate.\u201d \u201cBut what actually might be happening is it\u2019s because some of that traffic is now going to emerging news sources that might be more relevant in certain contexts.\u201d<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">In addition, after speaking about Preferred Sources, Connal also explained an upcoming Gemini app feature where it will &#8220;prioritize and highlight links to publishers with which a user has a subscription. This is expected to later roll out to AI Overviews and AI Mode.&#8221;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7kbOC2nx6N\">pic.twitter.com\/7kbOC2nx6N<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenngabe\/status\/2023387183080518123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Allowing #Opting #Overviews #Huge #Engineering #Project1771447779<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, we reported that Google was exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of showing up in Google&#8217;s AI features, like AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google\u2019s Sulina Connal said at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age conference that this is a &#8220;huge engineering project.&#8221; Sulina Connal is Managing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[12837,259,75,3458,12838,456,8004],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-allowing","tag-engineering","tag-google","tag-huge","tag-opting","tag-overviews","tag-project"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}