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European publishers have beef with Google’s AI Overviews.

A complaint filed by a group of independent publishers alleges that Google abuses its market power by not allowing them to withhold their content from AI Overviews without losing the ability to appear in Search results — a choice that Google believes may impact AI monetization.

The group is calling on the EU Commission to put “interim measures” in place to prevent irreparable harm to competition and news access.

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