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18%
18% -- organic click decline for Queries affected by Google AI Overviews (2025)
Google AI Overviews can lead to an 18% to 64% decrease in organic clicks for affected search queries.
- Early data; reported as a range (18-64%)
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18%
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2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Exploding Topics
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Tier C
https://webidextrous.com/how-ai-is-silently-changing-seo-the-1700-traffic-surge-no-ones-talking-abou… ↗
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Queries affected by Google AI Overviews: 18% organic click decline. Source: Exploding Topics (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-organic-click-decline-18-64
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