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Google AI Search Tries To Act Like ChatGPT, But Missing Links Will Tank Web Traffic

by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, March 25, 2025

Google has expanded access to its AI Mode search beyond Google One AI Premium subscribers in the U.S.

The lack of links to businesses will become a challenge for all when asking for detailed information.

The feature provided links to general information, but not when it came to specific details …

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Dan C. from MS Entertainment, March 26, 2025 at 2:31 p.m.
If you used Google 25 years ago, just two years after it launched, it would be lacking 95% of what it offers today.

There is an unrealistic expectation for AI search to provide 100% of what we've come to expect from Google when AI tools have only really become available to the public within the past year. And arguably, most of the public is still in the dark about how to access it, how it works, and how to use it.

Patience, grasshoppa.
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