B
Evidence Grade B
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38%
38% -- top10 citation share for Google AI Overviews (2026-01)
After Gemini 3 in January 2026, Ahrefs measured that the share of Google AI Overview citations coming from top-10 organic results dropped to 38%.
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Value
38%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026-01
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier C
https://quillly.com/blogs/rank-google-ai-overviews-chatgpt ↗
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Rank in Google AI Overviews & Get Cited by ChatGPT
Updated May 2026.
To rank in Google AI Overviews and earn ChatGPT citations in 2026, your page needs to be crawlable by AI bots, ranked in the top 10 organic results, structured for clean lifting, backed by original data, and updated within 90 days. The 5-Layer Citation Stack below covers all five g…
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Ahrefs measurement; pre-2026 figure was 99%
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Google AI Overviews: 38% top10 citation share. Source: Ahrefs (2026-01). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/aio-top10-citation-share-38
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/aio-top10-citation-share-38" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>38%</strong> -- top10 citation share for Google AI Overviews<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2026-01) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/aio-top10-citation-share-38" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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