--- title: How long until we need to block Google? | daily.dev description: Google's AI Overviews are reducing website traffic as search results increasingly provide direct answers instead of linking out. Public companies report... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-long-until-we-need-to-block-google--o2tqiergn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How long until we need to block Google? | daily.dev og:description: Google's AI Overviews are reducing website traffic as search results increasingly provide direct answers instead of linking out. Public companies report... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-long-until-we-need-to-block-google--o2tqiergn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O2tqierGN.png og:image:alt: How long until we need to block Google? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How long until we need to block Google? **[Arcjet](https://daily.dev/sources/arcjet)** · 4 min read · 71 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Google's AI Overviews are reducing website traffic as search results increasingly provide direct answers instead of linking out. Public companies report traffic declines from 52% to 28%, though Google claims overall click volume remains stable. Unlike OpenAI's granular bot controls, Google offers limited options for site owners to control how their content is used in AI features. Site owners can only block all Google crawling or allow everything, creating a dilemma as the traditional web traffic contract may be breaking down. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@gordon2297** · 6 upvotes > That's a really good question, it's a "content robbery", which can be useful to let be scraper by ChatGPT or equivalent to be mentionned and a kind of "marketing channel" but with Google there's almost no value, just loosing traffic **@mssweetroll** · 2 upvotes > I won't lie that Google searches drive me batty with the AI results, which is why I keep AI results turned off, yet they still break through. And the SEO issues it causes for website traffic is insanity. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#seo](https://daily.dev/tags/seo) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-long-until-we-need-to-block-google--o2tqiergn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How long until we need to block Google?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-long-until-we-need-to-block-google--o2tqiergn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-long-until-we-need-to-block-google--o2tqiergn"},"datePublished":"2025-08-11T12:02:09.139Z","dateModified":"2025-08-11T12:02:30.214Z","description":"Google's AI Overviews are reducing website traffic as search results increasingly provide direct answers instead of linking out. 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