In an interview with The Verge, CEO Sundar Pichai addressed claims of declining traffic, saying "we are sending traffic to a broader source of people. People may be surfacing more ...

Research shows that when Google adds an AI-generated answer at the top of search results, people stop clicking through to ...

Pew study finds AI summaries shut down curiosity and reduce link clicks, raising alarms among publishers, educators, and ...

News companies have been warned of a “devastating impact” on online audiences as search results are replaced by AI summaries, ...

Google began adding AI Overviews (AIO) to the U.S. search results on May 14. While vaguely mentioning that links in AIO get higher click-through rates (CTRs), Google has remained evasive when ...

As its AI previews continue to eat away at referral traffic, Google’s trying out another AI-based experiment in Search, this time with AI-organized SERPs, which will separate different angles of your ...

Google’s AI Overviews feature has led to a significant increase in the frequency of “zero clicks” to search queries — drastically reducing traffic to news websites, according to a new report.

Key Takeaways Google Discover now features AI-generated summaries, reducing the need for users to click on full articles to access the information they need.Pub ...

US think tank Pew Research Centre followed 900 adults’ Google searches for a month and found AI summaries vastly changed ...

Two large publishers – Dotdash Meredith and Ziff Davis – say Google AI Overviews haven’t significantly impacted their traffic. What Dotdash Meredith is saying. Here’s what the IAC (owner ...

As Google continues to roll out AI features in search, the dust is far from settled on this issue. Pichai’s optimism aside, the true impact of AI on the web ecosystem remains to be seen.

Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79 percent of traffic if results appear below Google Overview ...