Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how people search online, offering instant answers while diverting traffic from major websites, according to data from SimilarWeb and other sources.
AI-driven search tools from Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity are enabling users to access information at a glance, reducing the need to click through to traditional news, informational, and e-commerce websites.
In the U.S. annual search traffic fell sharply across several sectors in 2024-25.
SimilarWeb data showed that travel and tourism websites dropped 20%, news and media 17%, e-commerce 9%, finance and food 7%, and lifestyle 5%.
Wikipedia, long among the world’s most-visited websites, saw its daily visitors decline from 165 million in March 2022, around the time ChatGPT launched, to 128 million in March 2025, a 23% drop.
BrightEdge reported that as Google’s AI Overviews — launched about a year ago — became more widely used, AI-driven searches surged while direct website clicks fell 30%.
A report by The Decoder found that news-related searches via ChatGPT rose 212% in 2025 compared to 2024, while traditional Google searches for news rose just 5%.
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has announced plans to launch its web browser to compete with Google Chrome — a move expected to further reshape how users interact with the internet.
By integrating browsing with AI, OpenAI aims to capture more direct user data, intensifying pressure on Google, which still derives about 75% of its revenue from advertising.
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Venezuela has closed its embassy in Oslo, Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
From Sunday, all non-EU citizens, including British visitors, will face new biometric checks when entering and exiting the European Union under its long-delayed Entry/Exit System (EES).
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi of the University of California.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their groundbreaking discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in electric circuits.
United States chipmaker AMD will supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year agreement that could generate tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give the ChatGPT maker the option to acquire up to 10% of the company.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their ground breaking discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance.
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