The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals

The European Commission today sent Google its preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, proposing six specific measures governing how Google must share search ranking, query, click, and view data with competing search engines.

AI chatbots with search functionalities are explicitly included as potential data beneficiaries. A public consultation opens tomorrow.

The European Commission has sent Google its preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, proposing concrete measures to govern how Google must share search data with third-party search engines and, critically, with AI chatbots that carry search functionalities.

The findings, published on 16 April 2026, set out six specific areas of obligation and open a public consultation on Friday 17 April to allow third parties, including Google’s competitors and their representatives, to comment on the proposed measures before they are finalised.

The six areas covered by the Commission’s proposed measures are: the eligibility of “data beneficiaries” to ...