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15% -- ai search market share for Google Gemini (2026)
Google Gemini accounted for approximately 15% of AI search activity in 2026.
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https://www.instantpress.co/blog/ai-search-statistics-you-need-to-know-in-2026 ↗
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AI Search Statistics 2026: 10 You Can't Ignore | IP
One statistic frames the whole of AI search in 2026: when an AI answer appears on a query, the share of people who click through to a website reportedly drops from around 15 percent to about 8 percent. That is close to half your traffic on those searches, gone, absorbed by an answer the user never h…
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2026 market-share estimate of AI-search activity; original source not named.
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Google Gemini: 15% ai search market share. Source: instantpress.co (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gemini-share-of-ai-search-activity
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