{"id":72012,"date":"2025-09-18T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/72012\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:40:09","slug":"google-says-ai-is-making-search-better-but-open-internet-still-stagnating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/72012\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says AI is making search better but open internet still stagnating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-185818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fow-of-war.jpg\" alt=\"fog of war google research 2023\" width=\"615\" height=\"347\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s vice president of government and policy Markham Erickson told The Verge that users are increasingly choosing AI-powered summaries over traditional \u201cfactual answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the company\u2019s main goal is to maintain a \u201chealthy ecosystem\u201d that combines both AI-powered summaries and the classic \u201cten blue links\u201d format. Erickson noted that links remain an important part of search, but user preferences are changing, and Google must take this shift into account.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statements came amid a lawsuit from Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone. The publisher claims that AI-powered summaries reduce website traffic, which directly affects online media revenues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his comments, Erickson avoided details of the lawsuit, but noted that <strong>Google is seeking to strike a balance between new search response formats and traditional redirection of users to primary sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the debate over the impact of AI on the development of the Internet continues. During one recent lawsuit, Google admitted that \u201cthe open web is in decline,\u201d despite the company\u2019s previous claims to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"subscriptions-title\">Don&#8217;t miss interesting news<\/p>\n<p class=\"subscriptions-subtitle\">Subscribe to our channels and read announcements of high-tech news, tes<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Google\u2019s vice president of government and policy Markham Erickson told The Verge that users are increasingly choosing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[289,49515,18,823,19,285,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-72012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-court-of-law","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-google","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-internet","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}