{"id":1234713,"date":"2025-02-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234713"},"modified":"2025-02-25T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:00:00","slug":"chegg-sues-google-for-hurting-traffic-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234713","title":{"rendered":"Chegg Sues Google For Hurting Traffic With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Chegg has filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that AI summaries of search results have hurt the online education company&#8217;s traffic and revenue. From a report: The legal move come nearly two years after former CEO Dan Rosensweig said students engaging with OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT assistant were cutting into Chegg&#8217;s new customer growth. Chegg is worth less than $200 million, and in after-hours trading Monday, the stock was trading just above $1 per share. Chegg has engaged Goldman Sachs and will look at strategic options, including getting acquired and going private, President and CEO Nathan Schultz told analysts on a Monday earnings call. Chegg&#8217;s shares have fallen 99% since its peak in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Chegg+Sues+Google+For+Hurting+Traffic+With+AI%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F25%2F1351212%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-275.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F25%2F1351212%2Fchegg-sues-google-for-hurting-traffic-with-ai%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-190.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/25\/1351212\/chegg-sues-google-for-hurting-traffic-with-ai?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23620155&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chegg has filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that AI summaries of search results have hurt the online education company&#8217;s traffic and revenue. From a report: The legal move come nearly two years after former CEO Dan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}