B
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60% -- ai overview citation share outside top20 for Google AI Overview citations (2026)
60% of Google AI Overview citations come from URLs ranking outside the top 20 organic search results.
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60%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
AirOps
Primary
Tier C
https://infinitelabsdigital.com/google-ai-overviews-are-eating-your-organic-traffic-heres-how-to-fig… ↗
Source Article
Google AI Overviews Are Eating Your Organic Traffic: Here's How to Fight Back - Infinite Labs Digital
Your organic traffic dropped and you’re not sure why. Your rankings haven’t changed. Your content is the same. But fewer people are clicking through.
There’s a good chance Google AI Overviews are the reason.
BrightEdge’s 12-month analysis from February 2025 to February 2026 found that AI Overviews n…
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AirOps
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AirOps 2026 State of AI Search report
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Google AI Overview citations: 60% ai overview citation share outside top20. Source: AirOps (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-outside-top20
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