Okay, so it's market capture or something. They very much might be willing to nuke their adsense revenue in order to secure some large prize. Google is big enough, they must have a whole lot of paid positions thinking about what they are doing here.

I don't think they're trying to make money off of it, yet.  I think every company is trying to become the "default" AI engine.  once they have consumer lock-in, then they can think about monetization.


SimpleStacker

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

carter

How does google make money off its AI Overviews? With Adsense, they make money from traffic going to people's sites (at least that's how I understand it). So if they produce a tool that causes less traffic on people's sites, it seems like that would be a net bad for Google -- and I imagine they can measure this pretty easily. Are they able to make money off AI Overviews in same way that more than makes up for any decrease in revenue from adsense that it might cause? 