By Charlotte Tobitt
Publication Date: 2026-02-16 08:45:00
Allowing publishers to opt out of AI Overviews without affecting search is a “huge engineering project”, a Google boss told publishers last week. [Wednesday 11th]
Sulina Connal, Google’s managing director leading news and books partnerships in Europe, also set out how the tech giant is responding to publisher feedback and said it is planning to do “more focused deals” following its first AI-related news provider payments announced in December.
The Financial Times is the latest publisher to join Google’s latest group of AI deals which are believed to involve cash payments to publishers and include “extended display rights and content delivery methods like APIs” announced in December. The Guardian and The Washington Post were among…