Publishers Sue Google for Strip-Mining Their Traffic, Clicks Down 58%

The lawsuits are stacking up like overdue invoices on a dead publisher’s desk. Penske Media dragged Google into federal court arguing AI Overviews cannibalize publisher traffic, with filings claiming click-through rates cratered by as much as fifty-eight percent, and the education site Chegg sued after watching its non-subscriber traffic fall by roughly half. Independent data feeds the rage, since one analysis clocked thirty-seven of the fifty biggest news domains losing traffic year over year once the AI summaries rolled in. Your f*ucking AI strip-mined the people who built the web and then dared them to prove it in court. ALM Corp on the Penske antitrust filing.