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20%
20% -- search results share for Google AI Overviews (2026)
Google AI Overviews appear on more than 20% of US Google searches based on SparkToro/Similarweb research.
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20%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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SparkToro
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Tier B
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SparkToro
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SparkToro/Similarweb study
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Google AI Overviews: 20% search results share. Source: SparkToro (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-search-share
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-search-share" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>20%</strong> -- search results share for Google AI Overviews<br><small>Source: SparkToro (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-search-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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