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As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

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53 points elektor | 5 comments | 26 Jun 25 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.81s | source
1. softwaredoug ◴[26 Jun 25 17:50 UTC] No.44389644[source]▶
AI kills search traffic. Yes.

OTOH good search - deep research - is one of the biggest productivity gains using AI.

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2. ceejayoz ◴[26 Jun 25 18:18 UTC] No.44389892[source]▶
Until they kill off the content providers who a) rely on that traffic and b) provide the raw material for the models, of course.
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3. GardenLetter27 ◴[26 Jun 25 18:37 UTC] No.44390056[source]▶
And put ads and sponsored results in the LLMs.
4. candiddevmike ◴[26 Jun 25 18:52 UTC] No.44390208[source]▶
Using AI to do research almost seems worse than citing wikipedia as a reference.
5. heisenbit ◴[26 Jun 25 19:04 UTC] No.44390310[source]▶
And until now had to pay part of their revenue to Google for search results being ranked accordingly. Diversity of ingress vectors may not be such a bad thing.