Judge dismisses publishers’ suits over Google’s AI Overviews
Chegg and Penske Media said Google’s AI answers take their content and their readers. A federal judge found no deal that obliged Google to send them traffic, only an expectation.
US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington dismissed antitrust lawsuits by Chegg and Penske Media against Google on September 30, Reuters reports. Both said AI Overviews, the AI answers at the top of Google’s search results, use their content and cut the traffic Google sends them. The judge found they had shown no agreement with Google, only an expectation of traffic.