Penske Media CEO Jay Penske speaks at the 2024 Forbes Iconoclast Summit at Cipriani Wall Street on June 20, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images) Getty Images The simmering tension between media companies and Google over the search giant’s use of those companies’ journalism in its AI products has just spilled…
Close-up of a person’ using Google AI Mode. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Gado via Getty Images Google just telegraphed that it’s on the cusp of implementing one of the biggest changes to internet search in years, and it’s one that should probably be setting off alarm bells across the publishing industry. Robby Stein, Google…
Google defended its search engine’s artificial intelligence (AI) features amid growing concerns about their role in the global decline of website traffic. On Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant said that third-party reports suggesting a drop in search traffic are “inaccurate” and based on “flawed methodologies.” It defended features such as AI Overviews and the…
Search driven traffic used to deliver visitors and sales. AI is reducing those clicks and businesses that rely on educational content are feeling it first. For years, the formula for online business success was simple: Climb the search rankings in Google and/or shell out for ads on the dominant search site to drive traffic. But…