Wikimedia CEO Bernadette Meehan Says AI Chatbots Are Draining Wikipedia’s Traffic
Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan says Wikipedia's human page views are down roughly 8% as AI chatbots answer questions using…
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Google’s AI Overviews Jumped From 26% to 80% of Branded Searches Last Month
New tracking data from DemandSphere shows Google's AI Overviews appeared on roughly 80% of branded search queries in September, up…
New Data Says AI Overviews Cut Your Click-Through Rate by 61 Percent. Clicks Didn’t Vanish Though.
Seer Interactive's 2026 update to its ongoing AI Overviews research found organic click-through rates falling 61 percent on affected queries,…
Google Is Paying Some Publishers for AI Overviews, and Most Are Getting Pennies
Google's AI Contribution pilot pays about 100 publishers when their content shapes an AI Overview or Gemini answer, but reported…
A Federal Judge Just Told Publishers Their Google Traffic Was Never Promised to Anyone
A federal judge dismissed Penske Media's antitrust lawsuit against Google over AI Overviews, ruling that publishers never had an actual…
Google’s AI Overviews Now Show Up in 4 of Every 10 Desktop Searches, and ChatGPT’s Lead Is Shrinking Fast
Comscore's Q2 2026 AI Intelligence Report shows Google AI Overviews now appear in 39.4% of U.S. desktop searches, while ChatGPT's…
Google Search Console Now Shows Your Visual Search Traffic, But Not What Triggered It
Google has rolled out a new multimodal search filter in Search Console's Performance report, breaking out traffic from Google Lens,…
Google’s AI Overviews Were Killing Click-Through Rates. New Data Says They’re Recovering.
A new Seer Interactive study of 5.47 million queries found organic click-through rates rebounded 85% between December 2025 and February…
Google Quietly Killed the “Show More” Button and Started Tagging Every Search Click
Google's September 2026 search changes dropped the "Show More" button in favor of AI Mode, began rolling out google.com/goto tracking…
Google Will Now Pay Some Publishers When AI Overviews Uses Their Work. Good Luck Finding Out If You Qualify.
Google is quietly testing an "AI Contribution" payout program through Search Console that compensates publishers when their content significantly shapes…