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Ziff Davis lost 37% of its Google search traffic in a year as Google's AI answers cited its sites 2.7 billion times while sending back far fewer clicks.
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People Inc., owner of PEOPLE and Allrecipes, reports licensing revenue up 49% to $52.7 million while digital ads fell 8%, and its core web sessions dropped 26% as Google AI Overviews spread.
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Brave is selling its search index to Cohere, Mistral, and Perplexity, and a site: search can show whether a given website's pages are included.
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ChatGPT now builds mention and click charts for businesses that verify ownership, such as through a Shopify store, but prompt data and rival rankings remain hidden from them.
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Ziff Davis lost 37% of its Google referrals, USA Today Co. cut $100m in costs, Teads wrote off goodwill, and Meta and Google sued California over feeds.
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Criteo data shows 86% of its travel partners logged at least one ChatGPT-referred booking by September, up from 71% in April.
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Google says Gemini's Business Profile tools are coming to Workspace accounts, and the Maps Message button has moved; its help page no longer lists region limits.
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A YouGov poll of 2,080 UK adults found only 19% trust AI to make everyday purchases, compared with 55% for a human adviser.
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The Bank of England puts AI at nearly a fifth of UK growth in 2026, while UK firms estimate a 0.5% productivity gain over three years and report almost no job losses so far.