Google’s AI ‘Deep Search’ and What It Means for Organic Traffic

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Google’s AI ‘Deep Search’ and What It Means for Organic Traffic

Google has been rolling out AI search results since March 2024. The generative search results, known as Search Generative Experience (SGE) are AI deep search results that are impacting organic traffic in 2025.

Google's search generative experience is the same as Bing's deep search, providing answers to users questions directly in search results. At the same time, this provides fewer links for users to explore within the result. Paid adverts or sponsored ads sit below the AI response and organic results are listed after that.  

Google's Deep Search Impact on Click Through Rates (CTRs)

Google's deep search is accelerating, providing answers to questions in billions of searches. This new experience is revolutionising how internet users interact with search results, altering click through rates (CTRs) and organic traffic. AI responses provided as an AI Overview, provides answers directly, meaning users can get the information they need without having to click through to a website to find out more information.

A study published by Search Engine Land predicts a decrease in organic clicks of up to sixty four percent due to deep search. Users are quickly becoming used to receiving comprehensive answers directly from Google's AI Overview or deep search, decreasing clicks across the board, while enjoying a good user experience when searching the internet.

Google’s AI ‘Deep Search’ and What It Means for Organic Traffic
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Deep Searches Impact on Different Query Types

Google's Deep Search is having a major impact on various query types:

Featured Snippets and Knowledge Panels

Generative Search is enhancing featured snippets, providing synthesised responses that redistributes clicks, based on how the question is answered, dramatically reducing click through rates.

Search Ads

When your audience finds answers to their questions directly on the search engine results pages (SERP), they are less likely to click on an organic result. Even if your website ranks as the first organic result, you may see an increase of visibility, but a decrease in effectiveness.

Navigation and Transactional Queries

When users conduct a search with intent to visit a specific site to make a purchase, you may find deep search doesn't have such a large impact. 

Long-Tail Keywords

Google's Deep Search is excellent when answering long-tail keywords, creating specific answers. This is increasing user reliance on Google for important niche information, reducing clicks and organic traffic. Studies have found that search generative experience could negatively impact long-tail keyword search CTRs by as much as ninety percent.

In today's online world, Google is showing deep search results to most users, dramatically reducing organic traffic and click through rates for most websites, while making it harder to gather valuable insights and data.

Did you know that AI results in three more searches daily, while reducing click through rates by eighty percent? This is reducing organic traffic by up to forty percent for most websites. 

Conclusion

There has been a lot of speculation surrounding Google's deep search, but one thing we are sure of at Genie Crawl, is that many users will still want to visit websites to find the information that they are looking for. Are you ready to optimise your website for Google deep search? Get in touch with the Genie Crawl team today to find out more.

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