AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by Cthulhu_ on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:30AM (#44668387)

That reminds me of this webpage some years ago (idk if I can link it, it was very cynical) that summarized the week on HN with a lot of cynicysm and snark, it was a great, "grounding" read, a cynical break from the HN techbro overhyping of e.g. Rust.

(I don't know if Rust is overhyped, it's calmed down again but at one point a recurring post on HN was "solved problem X... but written in Rust!", where the latter was the main selling point instead of e.g. the 10x performance boost that a lot of applications get from a rewrite to a lower-level language)

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by zahlman on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:04PM (#44672376)

> I don't know if Rust is overhyped, it's calmed down again but at one point a recurring post on HN was "solved problem X... but written in Rust!", where the latter was the main selling point instead of e.g. the 10x performance boost that a lot of applications get from a rewrite to a lower-level language

Even the routine posts about uv seem to have settled down from that, honestly. The "written in Rust" fanfare is mostly contained to GitHub READMEs now. I still get the sense that it occupies quite a bit of mindshare in the background, though.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by locofocos on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:29PM (#44673506)

Oh yeah, n-gate.com, "we can't both be right"

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