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Google's AI search shift is upending how online publishers reach readers
Online publishing has depended for years on traffic from Google Search, and that dependence is now being reshaped by changes to how the search engine works, according to a report from The Verge.
Publishers built their strategies around search
For a long time, the digital publishing industry has leaned heavily on Google. Many outlets devoted time and money to optimizing their webpages so they would rank at the top of search results, where they could draw readers to their articles or introduce their websites to people discovering them for the first time.
Google is an Internet and software company based in Mountain View. It was founded in 1998, and its products and services include Google Search, the channel on which that traffic has depended.
Open questions
- How much traffic publishers are losing as a result of the changes has not been established in the facts available?
- Which specific AI search features are responsible for the shift is not detailed in the available reporting?