B
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67.82%
67.82% -- ai overview citations outside top 10 for Pages cited in Google AI Overviews (2025-11)
67.82% of pages cited in Google AI Overviews ranked outside the organic top 10 for the query or any of its fan-out queries.
- Figures are third-party research by Surfer, not published by Google
- Includes pages ranked outside the top 10 for both the query and any of its fan-out queries
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Evidence graded
Value
67.82%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-11
Entity
Sample Size
10,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
Source
Surfer
Primary
Tier B
https://seohandbook.co.uk/ai-search/query-fan-out/ ↗
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Query Fan-Out | The SEO Handbook
Query Fan-Out
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Query fan-out is the mechanism AI search systems use to turn a single user query into multiple parallel searches before composing an answer. Rather than treating the query literally, the system decomposes it into related sub-questions covering different facets of the topic…
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Surfer
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Methodology
Surfer study published 30 November 2025, based on 10,000 keywords; cited pages ranked outside the organic top 10 for the query or any of its fan-out queries. Figures are third-party research, not published by Google.
Methodology documented
Segmentation
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Pages cited in Google AI Overviews: 67.82% ai overview citations outside top 10. Source: Surfer (2025-11). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-citations-outside-top-10
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