There are really two options, either
- Clicks on results have decreased because AI summaries are so good. Or
- AI summaries aren’t giving the answers people want so they’re clicking on results.
It’s good for Google to show that clicks are happening because that’s part of how they make their money, their clients need the clicks to survive. It’s good for Google to show that AI summaries are being used because it’s a product they’ve poured a lot of money into, that’s being sold to shareholders as a superintelligence.
Bubble is going to burst.
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Search engines are so significantly worse than they were a decade ago. The golden age of accurate searches is over, now it’s all SEO piss and AI slop.
Dave@lemmy.nz 21 hours ago
To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.
Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.
It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.
frongt@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
SEO garbage has been around for much more than a decade. In fact, before Google got really good at search ranking, sites easily gamed the search engines.