**JUST IN:** Reddit $RDDT stock crashes 28% after CEO reveals Google AI search is driving significantly less traffic to the platform.

Reddit (RDDT) shares fell roughly 28% after the company's CEO disclosed that Google's AI search features are sending significantly less traffic to the platform, a headline reported by Watcher Guru. The transmission channel here is a platform dependency shock: Reddit's user growth and advertising inventory have relied heavily on search-referred visits, so a reduction in that traffic directly threatens its revenue outlook and reprices the stock on a fundamentally weaker growth trajectory. Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) is the more indirect exposure, since the disclosure ties a traffic decline to Google's own product changes, raising questions about how AI Overviews affect third-party publishers and the referral ecosystem that underpins search. Traders should watch Alphabet's next earnings call and any commentary on search traffic, AI Overviews monetization, and publisher relations, as well as Reddit's upcoming quarterly user and traffic metrics, which will show whether the decline is persistent or a one-time adjustment.

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