B
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13.7%
13.7% -- url citation overlap between google ai mode and ai overviews for Google AI Mode and AI Overviews (2025-12)
Google AI Mode and AI Overviews cited the same URL only 13.7% of the time across 540,000 query pairs.
- Measures URL citation overlap between two Google surfaces, not brand overlap
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13.7%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-12
Entity
Sample Size
540,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier B
https://www.searchintel.tech/blog/ai-citation-strategy/ ↗
Source Article
How to Get Cited by AI | SearchIntel
You assume that getting cited by AI is a content problem: write clearer pages, add schema, make sure ChatGPT can read what you already publish. Those steps fix being read. They do not fix being found, and the evidence points to two different starting points for each.
Most citation advice treats an A…
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Ahrefs study of 540,000 query pairs
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Google AI Mode and AI Overviews: 13.7% url citation overlap between google ai mode and ai overviews. Source: Ahrefs (2025-12). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-mode-ai-overviews-url-overlap-137pct
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