Hahahahahahahahahahaha.....
But on a serious note I am starting to get questions asked how to avoid AI completely. Nuke Google seems to make people very angry!

I run sites for a major NGO for addiction recovery. We often ask people how they found us. More than half now say AI. We don't have ads in our sites, but for people monetizing their sites this must be dramatic.

Also, Google must be bleeding ads revenue,

As my country likes to put it "ownself check ownself"

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?

To computer, word is numbers

Avoiding Google is honestly the best choice to avoid AI. Duckduckgo has a toggle where you can switch off AI summaries and filter out most AI generated images in image search. I switched to DDG years ago and never looked back.

Are we counting Gemini interactions as search?

Reading bing, dogpile ddg and misc website aggregate requests as clicks

indeed - run a searxng instance now and it is my default search engine. Includes google in the search but no AI and adds DDG and others. Works well enough

SearXNG - search.relayeasy.com

SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

(search.relayeasy.com)

Search engines are so significantly worse than they were a decade ago. The golden age of accurate searches is over, now it’s all SEO piss and AI slop.

Owner of product being sold says product is not bad.

I've only used Google a couple of times, and by accident. The ebook reader I have seems hard coded to search Google when you ask it to search the web for a word in the book. I intensely dislike the AI slop. I do not want an AI summary of the Wikipedia article. Just take me to the wiki article you dunces!

There are really two options, either

1. Clicks on results have decreased because AI summaries are so good. Or
2. AI summaries aren't giving the answers people want so they're clicking on results.

It's good for Google to show that clicks are happening because that's part of how they make their money, their clients need the clicks to survive. It's good for Google to show that AI summaries are being used because it's a product they've poured a lot of money into, that's being sold to shareholders as a superintelligence.

Bubble is going to burst.

Company fails to realize people circumvent their shoehorned tool

Cloudflare is killing clicks

Use searx

So he's lying. Good to know.

Man who invented torture nexus claims torture nexus isn't used for torture.

How does data show better experiences?

To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.

Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.

It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.