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Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The SEO marketing platform analyzed 100,000 keywords in June and found Reddit was no longer in the top 10 linked domains in Google's AI Overviews.
One incident included when it told a user to put glue on pizza to keep the cheese intact โ a suggestion that seems to have been based on a Reddit comment more than a decade ago.
SE Ranking's study also shows that LinkedIn, Wikipedia, and YouTube are in third, fourth, and sixth positions of the top 10 linked domains, respectively.
The SEO tool provider carried out a similar study in February before Google rolled out the AI feature to the public, which found that the overviews included many snippets from forums Reddit and Quora.
Google showed significantly fewer AI Overviews, previously called SGE (Search Generative Experience), in the June study than it did in February.
Liz Reid, the Search VP, addressed the pizza glue fiasco at a recent all-hands meeting, according to audio obtained by CNBC, saying the company would not "hold back features" if there were "occasional problems."
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