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52.15%
52.15% -- share of citations from brand owned websites for Google Gemini (2026)
52.15% of Gemini's citations came directly from brand-owned websites according to a Yext analysis.
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Value
52.15%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
6,800,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Yext
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Tier B
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Yext
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Methodology
Yext analysis of 6.8M AI citations
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Industrymarketing
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Google Gemini: 52.15% share of citations from brand owned websites. Source: Yext (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-brand-domain-citation-share
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-brand-domain-citation-share" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>52.15%</strong> -- share of citations from brand owned websites for Google Gemini<br><small>Source: Yext (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-brand-domain-citation-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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