Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by jacquesm on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:06AM
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All you need is good information and AI tools are giving you information without you knowing whether or not it is any good. You may think it is good, but unless you know more about the answer to your query than what you needed to create it you won't be able to tell the difference. If you did then you would not have been asking in the first place. Effectively you are now believing in an oracle.
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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by LinXitoW on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:16AM
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Which is different from believing the information on an ad and dark pattern infected website how?
Since the AI is trained on the data on the websites below the AI summary, the summary quality is basically lock step with the quality of the websites.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by jacquesm on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:29AM
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It is different because the AI is 'Google' branded and not 'ad and dark pattern infected website' branded. That proximity to Google's branding conveys trust, but it just whitewashes the content from that ad and dark pattern infected website. Only now you don't know about it.