Hacker NewsBots have now passed human traffic online for the first time
https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human
#HackerNews #bots #humantraffic #onlineanalytics #webtraffic
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“‘Another sort of death blow’ is how Roger Lynch, the chief executive of #CondéNast, the publisher of iconic titles like #VanityFair and the #NewYorker, recently described the drop in #webtraffic as #Google continues to ramp up #AI.”
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PPC LandGoogle silently drops pages: a dev studio lost 50% of its search traffic: Marmelab CEO Francois Zaninotto reports a 50% Google traffic drop in six months as the 'crawled but not indexed' page count rises with no explanation given. https://ppc.land/google-silently-drops-pages-a-dev-studio-lost-50-of-its-search-traffic/ #Google #SEO #WebTraffic #DigitalMarketing #SearchEngineOptimization
knoppixGoogle Search is shifting from ranked links to AI-generated answers, reducing reliance on traditional web links and publisher referrals. 🔎
The change centralizes discovery inside Google’s AI layer, raising concerns about reduced visibility for independent sites and open web access. 🌐
🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
#TechNews #Google #Search #AI #WebSearch #SEO #Publishers #OpenWeb #Internet #DigitalEcosystem #InformationAccess #BigTech #Gemini #GenerativeAI #WebTraffic
FYI: Zero Click Marketing becomes a book as web traffic falls 46% in three years: Rand Fishkin and Amanda Natividad open pre-orders for Zero Click Marketing, a practical guide for marketers as website traffic collapses 46% in three years. https://ppc.land/zero-click-marketing-becomes-a-book-as-web-traffic-falls-46-in-three-years/ #ZeroClickMarketing #DigitalMarketing #WebTraffic #SEO #MarketingTrends
ResearchBuzz: FirehosePress Gazette: Health coverage is getting killed by Google AI Overviews. “Looking at data from three months at the start of 2026, Sistrix estimates that health sections on major news brands will have seen links to articles supplanted by an AI-written summary 72% of the time in Google search results.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/16/press-gazette-health-coverage-is-getting-killed-by-google-ai-overviews/
ICYMI: Google search volatility spikes again - and sites are vanishing from the index: Google search ranking volatility hits May 13-14 as deindexing rates climb across the web, with multiple tools and the SEO community flagging sharp disruption. https://ppc.land/google-search-volatility-spikes-again-and-sites-are-vanishing-from-the-index/ #GoogleSearch #SEO #SearchVolatility #DigitalMarketing #WebTraffic
ICYMI: Zero Click Marketing becomes a book as web traffic falls 46% in three years: Rand Fishkin and Amanda Natividad open pre-orders for Zero Click Marketing, a practical guide for marketers as website traffic collapses 46% in three years. https://ppc.land/zero-click-marketing-becomes-a-book-as-web-traffic-falls-46-in-three-years/ #ZeroClickMarketing #DigitalMarketing #WebTraffic #MarketingStrategy #SEO
Google search volatility spikes again - and sites are vanishing from the index: Google search ranking volatility hits May 13-14 as deindexing rates climb across the web, with multiple tools and the SEO community flagging sharp disruption. https://ppc.land/google-search-volatility-spikes-again-and-sites-are-vanishing-from-the-index/ #GoogleSearch #SEO #SearchEngineOptimization #WebTraffic #Deindexing
Zero Click Marketing becomes a book as web traffic falls 46% in three years: Rand Fishkin and Amanda Natividad open pre-orders for Zero Click Marketing, a practical guide for marketers as website traffic collapses 46% in three years. https://ppc.land/zero-click-marketing-becomes-a-book-as-web-traffic-falls-46-in-three-years/ #ZeroClickMarketing #DigitalMarketing #WebTraffic #MarketingStrategy #SEO