Much of the Internet economy is built on clicks. Google’s new functionality of IA’s IA previews can change this.
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Much of the Internet economy is built on clicks. Google’s new functionality of IA’s IA previews can change this.
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Google’s overview can provide your question an answer before clicking on a single link. But that represents bad news for publishers who write the items that feed these summaries in AI: their commercial models depend on visits to the site to sell ads. And some small publishers have already been skyrocketing as the use of AI summaries increases.
“The event at the extinction is already there,” said Helen Havlak, publisher of the Technical Site The Verge.
John Ruwitch of NPR reports the way companies adapt to the upheaval of artificial intelligence in Google Search. And Google is an NPR financial supporter, but we cover them like any other business.
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This episode presented Bobby Alllyn reports from NPR. It was produced by Connor Donevan and Henry Larson with the audio engineering of Patrick Murray. He was published by Ashley Brown, Brett Neely, Kara Plato and Nadia Lancy. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
