📰 Media & Journalism 12h ago · Krystal Scanlon

Google search loses its free pass with buyers

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Google search loses its free pass with buyers
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For the better part of two decades, Google search was the line item media buyers rarely had to defend. AI Overviews complicated that. Google now answers more queries on the results page itself, which changes how often people click through to an advertiser and what each click is worth.



That, in turn, means fewer prime ad slots around the search results people see, and Google’s automated buying tools, now the default for most campaigns, are quick to pay up for the ones that remain. Q4 makes it

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