What comes after search? Cloudflare’s CEO says that’s an ‘existential’ question for the internet

What comes after search? Cloudflare’s CEO says that’s an ‘existential’ question for the internet

Google has made it much easier to find the answers we seek without navigating to various websites, but that has made it much harder to do business for media companies and other creators. And this new era of artificial intelligence-powered search will reshape the future of the internet, according to Matthew Prince, cofounder and CEO of Cloudflare. Cloudflare has a unique vantage point because it counts content creators and artificial intelligence…

Publishers Decry AI Mode’s Impact on Traffic, While Google Insists UI Tweaks Will Solve the Issue

Search giant Google just addressed some serious concerns from a host of publishers related to its latest AI mode. The company’s VP for Product, Robby Stein, shed light on a series of publisher concerns, including how it can really impact their business online. Thanks to the new AI mode, fewer users are likely to actually click on the publisher’s site.Image: X screenshot — Credit: DigitalInformationWorldGoogle was asked how they were combatting t…

Google's new 'AI mode' adds more AI to Search and enables users to ask complex questions

According to Google, users like its AI Overviews features so much that they have asked for AI-generated responses in more searches. To this end, the company announced the experimental release of 'AI mode' last week: a Labs experiment that "expands what AI Overviews can do with more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities so you can get help with even your toughest questions." In practice, the AI mode is quite similar (and a riva…

Google's Response To Publishers Concerns On AI Mode

Google's VP of Product at Google Search, Robby Stein, has responded to concerns from publishers around the new AI Mode. Specifically, the concerns around this new AI search interface not being all that encouraging for users to click over to publishers' sites.