B
Evidence Grade B
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60%
60% -- share of cited sources published within year for Google AI Overviews (2026)
Roughly 60% of cited sources in AI Overviews were published or updated within the past year.
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- Based on unnamed studies of AI Overviews
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Value
60%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
anypost.ai
Primary
Tier C
https://anypost.ai/blog/content-decay-how-to-spot-and-reverse-declining-pages ↗
Source Article
Content Decay: How to Spot and Reverse Declining Pages
Original Research
anypost.ai
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Methodology
Vendor blog citing unnamed studies of AI Overviews
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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Google AI Overviews: 60% share of cited sources published within year. Source: anypost.ai (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-cited-sources-recency
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