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Google adds setting to exclude domains from AI answers

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Google has introduced a new setting within its Webmaster Tools that allows domain owners to exclude their websites from being used in generative AI answers. This feature, recently discovered, also provides a graph showing the frequency with which a domain has contributed to AI responses, though it does not display click-through rates from these AI-generated answers. AI

IMPACT This feature may give website owners more control over how their content is utilized by generative AI models.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new feature within an existing product (Google Webmaster Tools) that affects how websites interact with AI-generated content.

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Google adds setting to exclude domains from AI answers

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Don't know who needs to hear this, but apparently # google recently added a setting in Webmaster tools to exclude your domains from Gen # AI answers First time

    Don't know who needs to hear this, but apparently # google recently added a setting in Webmaster tools to exclude your domains from Gen # AI answers First time Ive been in there in quite a while, there's a graph to show how many times per day your domain fed into GenAI responses.…

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