Google's AI Overview Killed Blogging And Paid Nobody!

For over two decades, the internet worked on a simple deal. Google indexed websites, sent them visitors, and those visitors became the income that kept millions of blogs and independent publishers alive. Then, in May 2024, Google introduced AI Overviews. Two years later, clicks to publishers have collapsed, zero-click searches have become the norm, and thousands of independent websites have either shut down or lost most of their audience. At the same time, the biggest media companies are signing multi-million-dollar AI licensing deals, while the creators whose work helped build the web receive nothing. This documentary investigates how AI Overviews changed search forever, why small publishers are disappearing faster than major media companies, what happened to websites like HouseFresh, The Planet D, and Digital Trends, and why the future of the open web may depend on a business model that no longer exists. Watch until the end to understand why this may be the biggest shift in the history of the internet.