Seth Goldstein<p><strong>Google Says That More Quality Clicks Are Coming From AI Overviews To Sites</strong></p><p>Source: <a href="https://blog.google/products/search/ai-search-driving-more-queries-higher-quality-clicks" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://blog.google/products/search/ai-search-driving-more-queries-higher-quality-clicks</a></p><p>Sure, Google. Of course they’re going to say this. Do I click on the source links? More than average people, but I’m not sure average person would.</p><p>Do I think that if you want to read more you might click the citations? Sure. But, often if your question is answered in the summary, why would you keep clicking through.</p><p>This is a major issue for publishers, because people aren’t coming to their site and seeing the ads. They might not be paying for the paywall. Or any number of things a visitor could do on the source site.</p><p>What do you think? Is Google full of malarkey? Fully? Partially? Not at all?</p><p>Mike Elgan has a great teardown of Google’s post here: <a href="https://machinesociety.ai/p/googles-dishonest-and-insulting-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://machinesociety.ai/p/googles-dishonest-and-insulting-ai</a></p><p>Let me know!</p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/ai-summaries/" target="_blank">#AISummaries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/clicks/" target="_blank">#Clicks</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/google/" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/search/" target="_blank">#Search</a></p>