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In Graphic Detail: AI Platforms Are Driving More Traffic — but Not Enough to Offset ‘Zero-Click’ Search

Summary by Digiday
Two trends are emerging in the world of AI and search: AI platforms are sending more traffic to publishers’ sites, while Google’s AI Overviews is reducing click-throughs across more search queries. Recent data is helping to show the impact of AI tools and features on the search landscape and on referral traffic. And while it seems the percentage of queries triggering Google’s AI Overviews plateaued last month, “zero-click” searches are still on …

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For some time now Google has also been offering us the AI overviews in its search and more and more search queries are answered directly. Basically, this is a clear summary of the suitable search results, which you no longer have to open and read for yourself. For the operators of the websites this is not good, they get fewer clicks. For the user, however, this is great, he has to work less and gets the answer to his question directly processed …

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