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58% -- ai overview trigger rate growth for Google Search queries (2026-02)
Google AI Overview trigger rate increased 58% year over year between February 2025 and February 2026.
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58%
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2026-02
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60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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BrightEdge
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https://infinitelabsdigital.com/google-ai-overviews-are-eating-your-organic-traffic-heres-how-to-fig… ↗
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Google AI Overviews Are Eating Your Organic Traffic: Here's How to Fight Back - Infinite Labs Digital
Your organic traffic dropped and you’re not sure why. Your rankings haven’t changed. Your content is the same. But fewer people are clicking through.
There’s a good chance Google AI Overviews are the reason.
BrightEdge’s 12-month analysis from February 2025 to February 2026 found that AI Overviews n…
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Google Search queries: 58% ai overview trigger rate growth. Source: BrightEdge (2026-02). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-trigger-growth-58pct
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