Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

That’s not so for many other crawlers, making Google an outlier among major players.

This is a sore point for a wide range of website administrators, from news websites that publish journalism to investment banks that produce research reports.

A July study from the Pew Research Center analyzed data from 900 adults in the US and found that AI Overviews cut referrals nearly in half. Specifically, users clicked a link on a page with AI Overviews at the top just 8 percent of the time,…