It's probably upping my number of search clicks because I want to figure out what sort of crack it was on when it came up with my answer.

AI did not, in fact, affect the rate that I clicked on results in Google search, at least if we're talking clicks per search.

It made me stop using Google search instead.

Well that and the shitty results it kept giving me at the top of the page when all I wanted was the Mozilla docs on a specific CSS attribute.

They changed circle search (home button search) to always include a desktop screenshot as part of the search on Android. It ruined the search experience. I responded by changing to Duckduckgo for all searching and disabled Gemini from the power button. I would venture I'm not alone

Being in marketing: BS.

Having seen how so many average people are using AI, I'm sadly not surprised that people are just going with whatever is up there, even when it is wrong.

Riiight... Next headline: "Pusher claims that his drugs not the cause sleepless nights and bugs under the skin"

AI is driving more searches

This is hilarious. People are searching more because they aren't getting results they need from AI, which drives ad revenue so Google's doing great!

Owner of product being sold says product is not bad.

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?

That's not what the data said back in March. I highly doubt it's gotten better.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/

I run sites for a major NGO for addiction recovery. We often ask people how they found us. More than half now say AI. We don't have ads in our sites, but for people monetizing their sites this must be dramatic.

Also, Google must be bleeding ads revenue,

Google search boss says words and no numbers :333

So he's lying. Good to know.

I don’t believe this for a second.

Man who invented torture nexus claims torture nexus isn't used for torture.

Oh so Google is only killing people and not the Internet? What a relief. /s

What a bunch of BS.

Are we counting Gemini interactions as search?

Search clicks were dead already from 19 out of the top 20 results being AI generated SEO garbage pages and "articles" that contains information that is blatantly false and even contradictory. AI just gives you that same garbage right there without having to click anything. The real info is probably buried somewhere two search pages down.

Amount of Google searches I've made since implementation of AI results: zero

As my country likes to put it "ownself check ownself"

Hahahahahahahahahahaha.....
But on a serious note I am starting to get questions asked how to avoid AI completely. Nuke Google seems to make people very angry!

Reading bing, dogpile ddg and misc website aggregate requests as clicks

People still use Google for search?

Company fails to realize people circumvent their shoehorned tool

Nice try Mr convinso

Use searx

Cloudflare is killing clicks