#google-ai

#google-ai

News companies face a substantial threat from AI summaries replacing search results, leading to up to 80% fewer clickthroughs as users find information directly without clicking through.

In March 2025, 58% of surveyed Google users encountered AI-generated summaries in search results, leading to reduced clicks on traditional result links.

"I Googled my name ('Dave Barry') and what popped up was something called 'Google AI Overview,' which is a summary of the search results created by Artificial Intelligence."

Reviving an impossible vibe: Slice & BarkleyOKRP To relaunch the iconic 80s and 90s soda Slice, BarkleyOKRP didn't just create an ad; they resurrected a cultural moment. They used Gemini to identify surprising cultural trends and build a world around them, manifesting as a fictional (but very real) analog radio station, 106.3 The Fizz in LA.

Publishers must tolerate the Google AI scraper bot because it comes under the same consent checkbox as Google's Search crawler.

Gemini CLI is a free and open-source AI agent that brings Google's Gemini models directly to your command line for natural language interaction.

Visits to major US news websites have plummeted since Google rolled out its artificial intelligence search feature last year, with some plunging 40%, according to troubling new data. Of the top 50 news domains, 37 suffered year-over-year traffic declines after the launch of Google's AI Overviews last May, according to SimilarWeb. The drastic dropoff comes despite headline-grabbing events that included the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last summer and his stunning election victory over Kamala Harris a few months later.

A recently published Google AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash, shows a decline in safety performance compared to its predecessor, Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Greg Jenner, a British historian, explored how AI misinterprets made-up idioms like 'You can't lick a badger twice,' illustrating its challenges with nonsensical queries.