alt Hacker NewsTo reach my site, users need to get through the AI summary first. Spoilers: they don't get through more often than not. This is based on the drop of views since AI summary started.
And honestly, I don't blame them. If the summary has the info, why risk going to a possibly ad-filled site?
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promiseofbeans • yesterday at 7:46 PM
Kagi has an optional AI summary users can trigger on demand, which feels a lot more useful than google’s - most of the time I want the actual websites, but sometimes I just want an overview of the top results which it’s really useful for
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cocoto • yesterday at 7:19 PM
And what if your website is ad free and the AI full of advertising? At least the users get the information and the AI save on your bandwidth (in theory!).
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> If the summary has the info, why risk going to a possibly ad-filled site?
I can usually tell if the information on a website was written by somebody who knows what they're talking about. (And ads are blocked)
The AI summary on the other hand looks exactly the same to me regardless if it's correct. So it's only useful if I can verify its correctness with minimal effort.