Google’s search chief rejects this strategy for licensing news content amid AI scramble

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Traffic and links remain Google’s core publisher strategy.
• Personal Context is still in internal testing.
• Google acknowledged publisher struggles directly.

Google has no plans to build a standardized API or universal licensing system for news content, the company’s search chief said last week, pushing back on proposals from media advocates who see such arrangements as…