UK publishers lobby to keep ChatGPT off Google's default-search choice screen
The UK's competition regulator is weighing rules that could put ChatGPT and Perplexity on Google's default-search-engine choice screen. Publishers are pushing back: they've watched traffic crater since AI Overviews, and fear that making an AI assistant a one-tap default would accelerate the collapse. Trade bodies warn the wording of the CMA's conduct requirements risks enshrining AI as search. Google's own screens currently don't offer AI options at all.