B
Evidence Grade B
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48%
48% -- ai overviews query appearance rate for Google AI Overviews (2026)
Google AI Overviews appear in 48% of all queries, up from 34.5% in December 2025.
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Value
48%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
answermaniac.ai
Primary
Tier C
https://www.answermaniac.ai/blog/geo-vs-seo-complete-comparison ↗
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GEO vs SEO: The Complete Comparison f...
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answermaniac.ai
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Methodology
Up from 34.5% in December 2025
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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Google AI Overviews: 48% ai overviews query appearance rate. Source: answermaniac.ai (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ai-overviews-query-share-48
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ai-overviews-query-share-48" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>48%</strong> -- ai overviews query appearance rate for Google AI Overviews<br><small>Source: answermaniac.ai (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ai-overviews-query-share-48" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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