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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Google Says Opting Out Of AI Overviews Is A Huge Engineering Project

Google is building granular opt-out controls for news inclusion in AI search features, but implementation is a complex, large-scale engineering project.
fromNew York Post
7 months ago
US news

Google AI summaries increase frequency of 'zero clicks' to search results, sinking traffic to news sites: report

Google's AI Overviews significantly increased 'zero clicks' for news search queries, impacting traffic to news websites.
fromNew York Post
7 months ago
US news

Google AI summaries increase frequency of 'zero clicks' to search results, sinking traffic to news sites: report

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US news
fromNieman Lab
1 week ago

ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities

ICE deportation actions drive major spikes in local and nonprofit news site traffic, especially among outlets covering targeted immigrant communities.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Facebook tests charging users to share links in potential blow for news outlets

Meta is testing a Facebook limit that allows non-subscribers only two external links per month to drive Meta Verified subscriptions and potentially reduce publishers' referral traffic.
fromNew York Post
7 months ago

Top news sites suffer drastic drop in web traffic since Google added AI search - with some plunging 40%

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.
US news
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