Regulators Scrutinise Google's AI Search Treatment of Publishers

Google has a special tool called a web crawler that visits websites and makes a list of them so people can find them on Google Search.

In the past, when you searched for something, Google showed you links and you clicked on them to read the full pages.

Now Google can read the information on websites and write its own answers directly on the search results page.

That means you can get your answer without ever clicking on the original website.

This gives people less reason to visit the articles and pages where the information first came from.

The people who write those articles depend on readers coming to their pages.

Some important groups in the United Kingdom and the European Union check whether big companies follow the rules.

These regulators are now looking at how Google uses artificial intelligence in its search engine.

They are also checking how Google treats the content made by publishers and website owners.