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.

As part of Google's efforts to comply with the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), news from EU publishers will disappear in a limited test.

A Paris court has ordered Google to halt a planned project that would reportedly remove certain media articles from search results in France. The ruling came in response to an emergency injunction

Google has started a drastic test that remove European Union-based news articles from its search results, Google News and Discover for one percent of users in nine EU countries which includes, Belgium,

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.