Google’s VP of Product at Google Search, Robby Stein, has responded to issues from publishers across the new AI Mode. Particularly, the issues round this new AI search interface not being all that encouraging for customers to click on over to publishers’ websites.
Mike Futia requested Robby Stein:
How do you quell legit issues from internet publishers that you’re scraping all their content material and eradicating the inducement for customers to click on over to their websites?
Through which Robby Stein responded:
The workforce is de facto targeted on how we make it simple to click on to websites — we now have much more UI updates coming that we confirmed in our announcement publish. It is one thing we hear from customers that they need and core to how we’re constructing AI Mode. Additionally, AI Mode goes to answer new kinds of questions, let individuals ask observe ups to discover totally different aspects, and finally create new alternatives for websites to rank.
I imply, we heard this from Google earlier than when Google launched AI Overviews. Google occasion stated it leads to more clicks however nobody believed it and without Search Console reporting, nobody believes it both. The truth is, third-party research and proof reveals the CTR from AI Overviews is horrid. Google is even being sued over this.
Google’s AI mode has tons of hyperlinks and citations, positive. However who will click on such complete and detailed responses, with so many hyperlinks.
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The workforce is de facto targeted on how we make it simple to click on to websites — we now have much more UI updates coming that we confirmed in our announcement publish. It is one thing we hear from customers that they need and core to how we’re constructing AI Mode. Additionally, AI Mode goes to answer new…
— Robby Stein (@rmstein) March 7, 2025
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