I hate that Google is pushing AI Overview down our throats. It’s just terrible. At first, I figured maybe it’s a good thing to get a summary of my search term that tells me exactly what I need — without needing to scroll further.
But after getting burnt on terrible hallucinated results, I’m just so done with it. If you factor in the fact that Google is using content from websites (such as ours) without really sending traffic over, it’s just another way that Google is slowly killing the World Wide Web in its drive to be an AI overlord.
Let’s be clear, AI Overview is taking information from websites, packaging it into a summary it thinks is accurate, then serving it on top of relevant search results. When it first launched, I’m sure plenty of you clicked on the “Show More” button, read, and realise that it’s a terrible answer that didn’t answer what you were looking for.
To be fair, there are times when i…
