As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the ...

Since Google rolled out AI Overviews in May 2024, the percentage of web searches without a click to a news site has jumped ...

According to new data published by Similarweb, 37 of the top 50 news domains saw year-over-year traffic declines.

In a digital landscape dominated by ever-evolving algorithms and artificial intelligence, the roles of large tech companies in shaping the ...

Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report.. Now that people can simply ask a chatbot for ...

According to a Wall Street Journal report from Tuesday, Google’s AI Overviews and its AI tools like chatbots have drastically reduced traffic to news sites, causing them to reconsider their ...

Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company's latest tools, including its wildly hallucinating ...

Interestingly, the impact of AI Overviews has varied across the web. In October 2024, Google was so pleased with AI Overviews that it expanded them to appear in more queries.

Beyond news, Google's AI tools have also dented traffic to travel guides, health information, and product review pages. The report notes that Google's upcoming AI Mode could hit even harder. This ...

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that half of US adults believe AI will have a “very” (24%) or “somewhat” (26%) negative impact on the news people will receive over the next 20 ...