Google’s AI land grab and how publishers can fight back

You can’t block the bots, but you can outmaneuver them—strategies to protect your content and reclaim control.

The tug-of-war between AI companies and the media would probably feel a lot more fair if it weren't for one specific player: Google. The search giant is in a race to dominate AI the same way it's dominated search, and a consequence of that is publishers can't really opt out of AI Overviews, the summaries that now appear at the top of searches. But there…