OpenAI recommends that the UK include AI chatbots in Google search options.

PANews reported on March 23 that OpenAI, in a public consultation submitted to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on March 6, suggested that the eligibility criteria for Google's search selection page should explicitly include AI chatbots with search capabilities, allowing such services to be selected as the default search service by users on Android devices and through portals such as Chrome.

OpenAI believes that services like ChatGPT can already achieve broad information discovery through conversational or multimodal methods, and are functionally similar to Google Search's AI Overviews and AI Mode; if the draft continues to be designed around traditional search, it may exclude these new types of services. It also recommends using transparent and dynamic popularity criteria to determine selected services, and suggests covering all entry points and functions, including voice, vision, and AI search. OpenAI further demands that Google assume responsibility for technical interoperability, shorten deployment cycles, and provide publishers with a unified control mechanism that allows them to prevent Google from using their search content for any AI services (including training, grounding , and fine-tuning ) with a single click.