Google's rollout of AI generated summaries in search will threaten web publishers; Gartner predicts traffic to the web from search engines will fall 25% by 2026
OpenAI is a massive threat to Google and Google will do anything to protect its bottom line, including pillaging content (even more so today) from web publishers
I appreciate the opportunity, and I'm hopeful there will be a middle ground eventually. If there isn't, we continue to pivot and figure it out 🤷🏼♂ ️ Check it out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
“Some people are going to just get bludgeoned.” How Google's deployment of AI in search results is going to crush traffic for some online publishers. Via @GerritD & @Cat_Zakrzewski https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
The real problem OpenAI has created for Google is that it has damaged the virtuous cycle of websites making free content for Google to index so Google sends them traffic in return. Now Google's AI results will provide answers instead of sending sites traffic and the web withers […
I genuinely feel for the publishers (and writers) who will have to navigate this and trying to find a more sustainable model as Google continues to short-circuit their clicks.