A judge told publishers that Google owes them no search traffic.
Judge Amit Mehta threw out antitrust suits that Chegg and Penske Media filed over Google's AI Overviews. He wrote that an expectation of referrals is not an agreement, only how a search engine works. Mehta dismissed the cases without prejudice, so both companies may file again with new claims.
Why it mattersThe sites you read fund themselves with search clicks that AI answers absorb. Courts just said that fight belongs in Congress, not in antitrust law.
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