How to Stop Google from AI-Summarising Your Website

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Google's AI Overviews in search results can divert traffic from original sites, presenting a dilemma for publishers.
Options to prevent snippets include using meta tags like max-snippet:0 or nosnippet, but these reduce visibility and CTR.
Selective blocking with data-nosnippet is possible but not foolproof as Google may still use other text.
User-side workarounds exist but are limited and often impractical, such as browser extensions or URL modifiers.
Regulatory investigations in the EU and UK aim to address Google's practices, with potential measures like mandatory attribution.
Publishers face a lose-lose situation: allow content extraction or block snippets and suffer visibility loss.
The situation is criticized as a dark pattern, manipulating publishers into unfavorable choices.
Until regulatory changes, max-snippet:0 remains the most effective, albeit flawed, solution for publishers.

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