{"id":19730,"date":"2025-10-20T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19730"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:16:40","slug":"media-news-web-sites-see-large-drop-in-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/10\/20\/media-news-web-sites-see-large-drop-in-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: News web sites see large drop in visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Search engines have turned into &#8220;web content summaries&#8221; and searchers never visit the underlying web news sites that provided the training material to the AI-assisted search. Thus, visits to the root information provider have plummeted.  There could be other reasons too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/tech\/google-faces-its-first-big-lawsuit-for-ai-summaries-rolling-stone-lawsuit\/\">Google faces its first big lawsuit for AI summaries, from one of many media companies it\u2019s eclipsing &#8211; Sherwood News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engines have turned into &#8220;web content summaries&#8221; and searchers never visit the underlying web news sites that provided the training material to the AI-assisted search. Thus, visits to the root information provider have plummeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}