Impact of Google AI Overviews on Web Traffic
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Summary
Google's AI-generated summaries of web pages are impacting search referrals, leading to a decrease in click-throughs to source websites.
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A year later, enterprise AI analytics biz BrightEdge reported that Google AI Overviews had generated more search impressions (up 49 percent), but click-throughs to the actual web sites dropped 30 percent
That means AI Overviews is leading more people to use Google Search to find answers to their queries.
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