No. of Recommendations: 5
This is definitely happening. The click through rate on results pages with an AI overview is *much* lower. But Google isn't unaware of it. It appears they are much more likely to give an AI overview on a search which is low revenue for them, and less likely if it's a high revenue topic.
I don't know if anybody noticed this before AI Overview's became a thing, but Google's business model all along is to drive traffic to google search by having google search be really really really attractive and useful, and oh, by the way, some of the results are sponsored.
And here they continue doing that, making google search even more better by putting high quality AI results available for those who want them, which I'm going to bet is a growing number of people.
And yes, there are still ads.
Plus cAI chAInge plus c'est lAI meme chose.
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