What you need to know In the European Union, the European Copyright Directive (EUCD) regulates how search engines and news aggregators can use, license, and preview news content.To measure the impact of news stories from EU publishers on Google services,

As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test: it will remove news articles from European Union-based publishers from Search.

Google is conducting a “test” that will omit results from EU-based news publishers. The company says the time-limited trial will only affect a small portion of users in nine EU countries and will help “assess how results from EU news publishers impact the search experience for our users and traffic to publishers.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) will be running a test in which they will not show results on its News, Search, and Discover platforms from EU-based news publishers, the tech giant said in a blogpost Wednesday.