Last week I presented a speech at Linux Day 2025, in Prato, about meta-search engines. Specifically, I was talking about SearXNG. While preparing the slides for the speech, I came across articles talking about “AI Overview”, the new feature/product by Google Search giving out answers for your queries in a LLM generated box on top of standard search results. According to many sources, AI Overview has already had a great impact on websites’ traffic across many industries since its release: notably, newspapers and websites giving out generic information such as Wikipedia, have seen their traffic reduced. Preliminary research on the topic seems to confirm this trend.
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