[graph showing 7 years of steady growth, then a 70% traffic drop starting when AI overviews were released]
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work.
This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. In another year, it will be impossible. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future.
Yesterday, Google announced two things: AI-generated answers will completely replace search results, and AI-generated answers will soon contain ads.
This is the future of the web. I don't know where All About Berlin fits in that future.
I'm a fan of the website. Sorry to see it's happening. Not sure what the AI models would train on when nobody has incentives to put out useful information on the web? Grim situation :(
[graph showing 7 years of steady growth, then a 70% traffic drop starting when AI overviews were released]
AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work.
This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. In another year, it will be impossible. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future.
Yesterday, Google announced two things: AI-generated answers will completely replace search results, and AI-generated answers will soon contain ads.
This is the future of the web. I don't know where All About Berlin fits in that future.