Last year, Google launched AI Overviews, which shows an artificial intelligence-generated summary at the top of Google search results. “Chatbots are replacing Google searches, eliminating the need to click on blue links and tanking referrals to news sites. As a result, traffic that publishers relied on for years is plummeting,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Although New York Almanack continues to grow readership, this site has also seen a decline in referrals from Google. Readers who arrive via Google are more likely to simply read the AI generated summary at the top than click on the result page. [Read more…] about Google AI Generated Summaries Hurting Small Web Publishers