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The core traffic of tool websites comes from long-tail searches of the "how to do something" type, and this type of query is precisely the scenario that AI summaries are best at answering directly, so tool site traffic is being eroded by AI summaries.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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10/15/2026
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Valid until: 1/13/2027
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