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New Google AI Overview search feature: publishers fear it will destroy traffic to their websites

Australian Financial Review

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23 June 2024
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8 Mar 2025, 02:41 pm

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Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ has rolled out in the US. Its AI-generated results push links down by a full page, a new study has found.

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