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Google AI Overviews Include Links That Route Users to AI Mode Instead of Web Pages

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Google is embedding links within AI Overviews that route users to AI Mode rather than external web pages, reducing traditional organic traffic potential.

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SERoundtable reports that Google has begun placing clickable links in AI Overviews that direct users into AI Mode instead of to web pages and websites. The links appear at the bottom of AI Overviews and prompt follow-up questions designed to keep users within the AI interface rather than routing them to external content.

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