Publishers say site traffic has plummeted since Google rolled out AI Overviews; sources say Google acknowledged the drop in an October 2024 publisher meeting
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways …
This is such a disaster. Small publishers still utterly rely on Google for traffic and discovery, and Overview by all counts seems to be decimating both. [embedded post]
Thank you to @business for featuring our story, and that of many other independent publishers. What Google is doing is wrong and everyone should know about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Google says AI Overviews drive more traffic to publishers. But it has never shared data to back up that claim. @daveyalba & I spoke to 25 creators who painted a very different picture. Several have gone out of business. One is on food stamps. Our latest: https://www.bloomberg.com…