@Lee_Holmes Why? The AI summary still appears on top of the SERP, reducing the likelihood of people scrolling down / clicking on anything. It just can't lean on your website content anymore.

@teun I don't *think* they expose this setting otherwise (i.e., robots.txt and meta tags only let you opt out of training or out of search altogether).

PSA: if you have a website or a blog, you can use Google Search Console to turn off the use of your site in AI overviews. You get multiple scary warnings if you try. I was curious what's the actual impact on site traffic, so I turned it off. It went from ~1k AI summaries a day to zero, with no measurable impact on visits to the site.

When your company's lawyers advise you not to look at patents, this is why