Google told to ‘stop the BS’ as it claims AI has not harmed website clickthroughs
Google’s Liz Reid claims total click volume from search is “relatively stable” year on year.
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Major UK publishers have seen Google search visibility ‘drop by up to 80%’ since 2019
Likelihood of publisher keywords triggering an AI Overview increased by 3.5 times between March and June.
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AI Overviews cutting publisher clickthrough rates by 50%, new report finds
New research on AI Overviews has been submitted as part of a legal complaint on its impacts.
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Google AI Mode goes live in the UK
New search experience described as “lose-lose” for sources of trusted news.
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How Which? is building a long-term subscriber base less reliant on quick washing machine decisions
Which? finding ways to deliver “real value” to consumers beyond sporadic purchasing advice.
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There’s only one way the news industry will win in the AI era: together
Taking control of the relationship between publishers and machines means learning lessons from the recent past.
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Third-party scrapers are stealing publisher content to order for AI companies
Unscrupulous companies are ignoring Robots.txt warnings and bypassing paywalls.
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Prorata: The generative AI player planning to share revenue with publishers
Prorata has new slogan: “They scrape and steal. We credit and compensate.”
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