Google dodges second antitrust breakup attempt while AI Overviews expand automatically and Gemini stops citing sources

Ahrefs reports that Google serves abnormal or outdated pages to SEO data tools at rates between 5% and 20%, depending on the provider.

Google's John Illyes clarified that robots.txt controls crawler access but does not prevent content from being used for AI model training.

Publishers are coordinating across the US and EU to push for legislation requiring AI bots to identify themselves as a defense against scraping.

Google expanded its list of content exclusion methods to seven, adding Search Console AI controls alongside existing snippet and indexing rules.