AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by chasd00 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:30AM (#44669466)

Yeah recipes are the worst. I least the acknowledge themselves and give you a “jump to recipe” button most of the time. I sometimes hit the print button and just use the preview screen too.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by manwe150 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:26AM (#44669824)

I don’t think recipes are much at actual fault here. It seems the fault of search engines preferring returning recipes with longer stories over just-the-recipe blogs or sites like AllRecipes. We humans just have to suffer as a result of the artificial selection of what the search engines wants for us to experience.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by danaris on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:50AM (#44670027)

It's not just that: recipes on their own are, AIUI, not copyrightable.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by zahlman on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:51AM (#44672195)

https://cookingforengineers.com is giving 500s for me. Per the Wayback machine it was working as recently as last month. They do include background stories but they're much better about this sort of thing. (The old-school aspects of the page layout also help.)

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by 83 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:03PM (#44675358)

Paprika (an app for storing recipes) can parse out the ingredient list and directions from a webpage. It's surprisingly good at it.

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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks by chasd00 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @04:05PM (#44675393)

thank you for this! i'll check it out

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