Google, AI Overviews and Web traffic
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Google’s AI summaries are causing a sharp drop in website clicks, prompting publishers to rethink business models amid fears of a “Google Zero” future.
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.
Reddit Inc.‘s board and top executives misled investors about the negative impacts of Google Search’s algorithm and artificial intelligence updates on the social media platform’s traffic, a shareholder lawsuit filed Wednesday said.
Google adds AI-generated summaries to its Discover feed, changing how users read news and raising fresh concerns over declining publisher traffic.
Dutch and European media organizations warn that Google’s AI-powered search summaries are threatening their survival by slashing website traffic and ad revenue, BNR reports.Since spring, Google has rolled out AI-generated answer blocks—called “AI overviews”—in search results across the Netherlands and several European countries.