AI is killing All About Berlin
The website All About Berlin has experienced a significant decline in traffic due to changes in Google's search results, which now prioritize AI-generated answers. This shift has resulted in a 70% drop in visitors, making it difficult for the site's creator to sustain their work. The article highlights the broader impact of AI on content creators and the future of online information sharing.
- ▪All About Berlin has lost 70% of its traffic to Google AI Overviews.
- ▪The creator is struggling to fund their work with significantly fewer visitors.
- ▪Many website owners are facing similar challenges and some have stopped updating their sites.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | Nicolasbouliane |
| Canonical URL | https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-by-ai |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 17:45:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T17:52:50.579Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T17:52:50.579Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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AI is killing All About Berlin Posted on May 26, 2026 This is the traffic to All About Berlin, the website that I run since 2017, and live from since 2020. After 7 years of growth, it has lost 70% of its traffic to Google AI Overviews. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get a page of ads, then an AI-generated answer trained on my content, then finally a link to my website. This has a devastating impact on traffic. What it means to be first on Google It’s hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. Soon, I will need another way to pay my rent. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future. It’s not just about the money. I have poured 8 years of my life into making something good and useful.
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