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Google is destroying independent websites, and one sees no choice but to defend it anyway

To WikiHow, Google is both tormentor and savior. And on Wednesday, as the search giant mounted its defense in the ongoing ad tech remedies trial, the how-to site came to Google’s rescue.

WikiHow CEO Elizabeth Douglas described to a court how websites like hers are the middle of an “AI apocalypse.” WikiHow, a website that gives step-by-step practical advice, is suffering from a new paradigm shift in how people find information online. Thanks to new AI tools including AI chatbots and Google’s own AI Overviews in its search results pages, users across the web are clicking through to websites less and less – and as a result, seeing and clickin …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/790711/google-doj-ad-tech-remedies-wikihow-open-web

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/790711/google-doj-ad-tech-remedies-wikihow-open-web

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