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

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

The AI summaries reportedly replace the news headlines The new format is said to show multiple logos of multiple publications Google Discover is also said to be experimenting with non-AI summaries ...

Group of independent publishers alleges the technology is harming their business by diverting web traffic and undermining ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the next step of Google’s AI overview rollout, the technology is now coming to Google’s Discover feed. First identified by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.