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13% -- ai overview appearance rate for Google AI Overviews in US desktop searches (2025)
Google AI Overviews appear in over 13% of all U.S. desktop searches, more than doubling since January 2025.
- Applies specifically to U.S. desktop searches
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13%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Semrush
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Tier B
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Semrush analysis; more than double the January 2025 rate
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Google AI Overviews in US desktop searches: 13% ai overview appearance rate. Source: Semrush (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-us-desktop-share
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