- The UK Competition and Markets Authority put forward proposals requiring Google to display a choice of search providers when users first set up an Android phone or open Chrome, and to prompt users once a year to re-pick a default.
- AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity that meet Google's technical and security criteria would be allowed onto those choice screens, expanding the distribution contest beyond conventional search engines.
- The proposals also require search providers to fairly attribute publisher content, tying the choice-screen regime to how search traffic and referral value reach publishers.
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“It would also require search providers to fairly attribute publisher”