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Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Most searchers don’t click on anything else if there’s an AI overview — only 8% click on any other search result. It’s 15% if there isn’t an AI summary.

I can't get over that. An oligopolistic company imposes a source on its users that is very likely either hallucinating or plagiarizing or both, and most people seem to eat it up (out of convenience or naiveté, I assume).

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I usually scroll down just a little and find the source they ~~trained on~~ stole from. That one deserves a click most times because it explains the source.

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