Googles AI Overviews are killing traffic for publishers | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- Google’s AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers
- For The New York Times, the share of traffic from organic search to the paper's desktop and mobile sites fell to 36
- 5% in April 2025
- Publishers like The Atlantic and The Washington Post have spoken about the need for the industry to shift business models
Googles AI Overviews and other AIpowered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report.Now that people can simply ask a chatbot for answ [+1615 chars]
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