This statement feels like a direct response to a recent Pew Research Center analysis that showed searches with AI Overviews resulted in lower click-through rates. Google objected to the conclusions and methodology of that study,

Google rolled out its chatbot-like search feature, AI Mode, to everyone in the US, raising more concerns among digital publishers. Despite these far-reaching effects, Google has even bigger plans to reinvent search down the line, as it has started testing a new search results page curated by AI.

Reid's framing boils down to everything is peachy, and AI is making things better — even for websites! She wrote that Google Search's total organic click volume to websites has been "relatively" stable year-over-year.

Google has been revamping its search engine for years to answer more questions directly on the search results page, and now does so with AI through its “AI Overviews” that app

A new Google blog post shares some broad traffic trends and tells us that AI drives more queries and higher quality clicks