Quoting @caseynewton who warned a year ago that Google was putting the web into a state of managed decline.
"AI overviews have resulted in declines of 70 to 80 percent in the click-through rates to the web pages from which they derive their information. That’s 70 to 80 percent fewer visits to web pages..."
https://www.platformer.news/safari-search-decline-apple-google/