alt:
"AI overviews, of course, are intended to work the same way: identifying the relatively few credible publishers left on the web, then compressing their collective output into a slurry that can be served up in the place where search results once appeared. The trend is away from an open web where anyone can compete to a world with a smaller number of big winners. For the moment, that benefits large publishers. In time, though, it may favor only one publisher: Google itself.
In that way, the story of the AI overviews debacle and the story of the search ranking leaks are the same. Each shows Google moving awkwardly toward the place it has been moving for years now. And at the moment it’s not clear what anyone can do about it."
