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The front of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House in Washington, the seat of the US District Court for the District of Columbia: a pale stone facade with the building's name above three dark doors, and a carved stone relief panel standing on the plaza.

Industry

Federal judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust suits over Google's AI Overviews

Judge Amit P. Mehta granted Google's motions to dismiss two antitrust suits brought by Chegg and Penske Media Corporation on September 30, 2026. The publishers argued that Google forces sites to hand over content for snippets, AI training, and AI Overviews as the price of appearing in search. The court held that the complaints did not plausibly plead an agreement, separate products, antitrust standing, or a defined market. If you run a site that depends on Google traffic, the ruling leaves your options where they were: let Google crawl, or leave its index.

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A phone showing a news article with a black "Add to Preferred Sources" button; behind it a woman holding a coffee cup reads her own phone.

Industry

Google gives sites a button readers use to name them a preferred source

On August 20, Google published a button a publisher places on its own page, which a reader clicks once to add that site to their preferred sources in Search. The consequence is that the site's pages appear more prominently in Top Stories, in AI Overviews, and in AI Mode. Google says users have chosen more than 600,000 different sources so far. Two reader-side changes arrived with it: tuning topics in the Discover feed through a three-dot menu, and a customizable audio briefing in Google News for Android.

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