lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: on Nostr: PSA: if you have a website or a blog, you can use Google Search Console to turn off ...
PSA: if you have a website or a blog, you can use Google Search Console to turn off the use of your site in AI overviews. You get multiple scary warnings if you try. I was curious what's the actual impact on site traffic, so I turned it off. It went from ~1k AI summaries a day to zero, with no measurable impact on visits to the site.
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