AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by bokkies on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:18AM (#44667895)

Application error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command heroku logs --tail

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by timpera on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:57AM (#44668168)

Same for me! I'm also in the EU.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by bryanrasmussen on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:09AM (#44668261)

the darkest pattern of all!

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by cudder on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:40AM (#44668444)

Funny because it's true. Nothing in the GP's list of dark patterns irritate me more than a site that initially loads and nicely displays the content but then takes it all away and switches to the generic next.js "Application error" when you move the mouse or try to scroll. FFS!

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by seszett on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:26AM (#44667940)

I also get that.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by jonplackett on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:39AM (#44668028)

Weird only some people getting an error. Works ok for me.

It’s on a very old Heroku hosting plan. I should probably update that one day.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by seszett on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:46AM (#44668087)

Just for the record, I get the same result with Firefox or Chromium and with IPs in different EU countries.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by Barbing on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:20AM (#44668328)

LMK, reporting in as well: broken when trying multiple ways on my end and wanna play! Great idea!

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by esskay on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:23AM (#44668353)

Dead here in the UK too

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by andruby on Thursday July 24, 2025 @03:44AM (#44668071)

me too. Are we all in the EU? (I am)

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by gorbypark on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:15AM (#44669005)

When you posted this, it would have been 1-3AM in North America (and probably large parts of South America), so yeah, probably mostly Europeans!

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by bokkies on Saturday July 26, 2025 @12:43AM (#44691404)

And the many keen HN readers down in South Africa! (also CET)

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by cylemons on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:39AM (#44668807)

Same, Western Asia

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by tim1994 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @05:58AM (#44668919)

I also get this. Firefox on Android in Germany.

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