A new report shows that small publishers have lost 60% of their Google search traffic over two years due to AI Overviews, forcing a shift to direct traffic.

Publishers are losing Google organic search traffic, but breaking news traffic jumped 103% and Discover clicks are surging.

You ask a question, or put a few keywords into Google’s search bar. You get a search result page, with the top section featuring a bunch of paragraphs collected by Google’s powerful AI-bot Gemini. The ...

Google privately told a federal court that “the open web is already in rapid decline,” a sharp reversal from its public claims that search traffic is booming — and a stunning admission as the Justice ...

There has been a fundamental shift in how people discover news content through Google's platforms. Google Web Search traffic to news publishers fell 51% in 2023 and was down 32.21% in 2024. The next ...

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Google Search has been sending 25 percentage points less traffic to news publishers over the past two years, according to the folks over at Newzdash. In 2023, Google Web Search made up over 51% of ...

Google added new documentation to Search Central covering their Preferred Sources program that helps news websites get into the Top Stories feature. The documentation explains what publishers can do ...

Let’s explore some potential possibilities, but before we do, let’s distinguish the differences between AI Mode and AI Overviews, as there is a clear distinction between the two. AI Overviews are ...