Have you guys heard about the new Google Search Bar changes?
Apparently Google is shoving AI further down our throats and will be rolling out updates starting next week Tuesday. The Search Bar as we know it will now be an AI chat, where the chat bot gives people direct answers, rather than just showing the blue links to people's websites.
As I understand it, this will totally kill people's website traffic because the AI will be scrapping data and giving answers right in chat. I assume a search like "Wedding photographers in my area" would populate a list of photographers, but how it picks those photographers is not clear at all.
Has anyone else heard about this? My business was picking up this year and I had just started booking into next year. 100% of my inquiries come through my website. I've been able to ignore social media for the most part until now, but obviously, that might not fly any more.