Chegg Sues Google, Alleges AI Overviews Destroyed Its Website Traffic

by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 25, 2025

Chegg, an online learning platform that offers textbook rentals and helps students understand their homework, has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google.

The company alleges in the lawsuit that the use of AI-generated summaries in search-engine results has "crushed" its website traffic and revenue.

"We are launching a strategic review …

ai, artificial intelligence, back-to-school, education, google, health, lead generation, legal, media buying, research, search, seo, web sites

Next story loading

About the Author

Laurie Sullivan is a writer and editor for MediaPost. You can reach Laurie at lauriesullivan@gmail.com.

Discover Our Publications

Must-read daily news for media planning and sales professionals.
Must-read daily news for brand, product, service marketing execs.
Advertising and agency news, campaigns, accounts and more.

Must-read daily news for the television industry.
Must-read daily news for the publishing industry.
Premium insights on research daily.

In-depth interviews with brand marketers.
Inside media.
Inside brand marketing.

Inside email marketing.
Inside search and performance marketing.
Inside media planning and buying.

‹›