B
Evidence Grade B
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68%
68% -- ai overviews appearance rate for Google AI Overviews (local business-type searches) (2026)
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Value
68%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Whitespark
Primary
Tier B
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Industrymarketing
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Google AI Overviews (local business-type searches): 68% ai overviews appearance rate. Source: Whitespark (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-local-business-searches-68pct
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